The Federation of Cortavar is a titanic, socially progressive nation, ruled by Federal Governor Irina Isakev with a fair hand, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, cultivated feral children, and unlimited-speed roads. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 13.212 billion cortavariens are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Industry, although Administration is also considered important, while Environment and Welfare aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Valflamme. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient cortavarien economy, worth a remarkable 5,468 trillion Cortavarian credits a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Gambling. Average income is an amazing 413,869 Cortavarian credits, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,848,218 per year while the poor average 4,083, a ratio of 942 to 1.

Concussed dolphinball players cannot remember their lineup position, classes at Valflamme University get canceled on Brancaland's Independence Day, whales in captivity live in little more than glorified goldfish bowls, and heroes long thought dead are promptly killed upon their return. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Cortavar's national animal is the dolphin, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Culte of 12 Deities.

Cortavar is ranked 438^th in the world and 13^th in Balder for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring 126 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.