The Forgotten And The Mindless of Corngold is a huge, genial nation, notable for its pith helmet sales, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 736 million Corngoldians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Blank Space. The average income tax rate is 68.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Corngoldian economy, worth 68.8 trillion The Mindlesses a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 93,461 The Mindlesses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government mails weekly updates on the new anti-junk mail laws to every citizen, modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes, one does not simply walk into the tundra, and Corngold recently hosted the least successful trade negotiations since The Phantom Menace. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Corngold's national animal is the The Forgotten, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Corngold is ranked 298,308^th in the world and 186^th in Refugia for Largest Black Market, with 22.0 billion Standard Monetary Units.