The Bone Eaters of Coyote Black is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The cynical population of 27.717 billion Coyote Blackians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 71.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Coyote Blackian economy, worth 517 trillion rens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Retail, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 18,649 rens, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation is ravaged by daily union strikes, political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations, polygamy is legal, and loans are available for students from poor families. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Coyote Black's national animal is the golden ferret, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Coyote Black is ranked 319,304^th in the world and 1^st in SFBA for Most Developed, scoring 45.87 on the Human Development Index.