The Grand Corndom of Corngold is a huge, safe nation, ruled by President Snowy with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 863 million Corngoldians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

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 72.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Corngoldian economy, worth 86.3 trillion Grains a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 99,992 Grains, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Weathermen are being arrested for attempting to read the future, banning party poppers has been a real party pooper, couples kissing on the street are detained for 'unlawful exchange of genetic material', and a widely accepted trade policy is "tit-for-tat". 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 Cyow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Corngold is ranked 321,547^th in the world and 203^rd in Refugia for Rudest Citizens, with 7.19 insults per minute.