The People's Republic of Corrinisle is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, anti-smoking policies, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 1.541 billion Corrinisleans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 78.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Corrinislean economy, worth 125 trillion Corples a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 81,225 Corples, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, scenic mountain valleys are flooded with water as damming projects get underway, the words 'private' and 'enterprise' must never appear in the same sentence, and sports fans complain that cricket tests now last an unbearable ten days. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Corrinisle's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Corrinisle is ranked 29,582^nd in the world and 77^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Highest Poor Incomes, with 75,820.36 Standard Monetary Units.