The People's Republic of Cork Stork is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its national health service, state-planned economy, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 3.4 billion Cork Storkians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Administration, with Law & Order, Industry, and Education also on the agenda, while Spirituality receives no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 68.0%.

The all-consuming Cork Storkian economy, worth 315 trillion Golds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, Pizza Delivery, and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 92,932 Golds, with the richest citizens earning 5.8 times as much as the poorest.

Volunteers are signing up to take arms against an incursion of flesh-eating zombies (Cork Stork has found 1 easter egg), school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp, an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, and endangered species are effective hostages against the Cork Storkian military. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cork Stork's national animal is the Akita, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cork Stork is ranked 25,930^th in the world and 923^rd in Balder for Largest Black Market, with 90.7 trillion Standard Monetary Units.