The Regional Park of Cowles Mountain is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by The Park Ranger with an even hand, and notable for its smutty television, keen interest in outer space, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cheerful population of 19.832 billion Cowles Mountainians 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, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cowles Mountain. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Cowles Mountainian economy, worth a remarkable 3,954 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Soda Sales. Average income is an impressive 199,396 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

The Park Ranger is described as an everyday person with normal tastes and the usual interests, rumor has it that the government was paid off by the mob to allow casinos to reopen, prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, and in a fit of passion The Park Ranger has shredded thirty years' worth of petitions. Crime is totally unknown. Cowles Mountain's national animal is the coyote, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Paganism.

Cowles Mountain is ranked 466^th in the world and 2^nd in Mission Trails Regional Park for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 20,095.04 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.