The Watchfires of Coz-1 is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, compulsory military service, and pith helmet sales. The devout population of 28.343 billion Coz-1ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 46.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Coz-1ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,273 trillion $$s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 80,217 $$s, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Law schools are hurrying to teach the "prank defense" to their students, The Very Hungry Caterpillar has been banned for advocating gluttony, barbed wire entanglements and guard towers surround the Coz-1 City Natural History Museum, and foreign leaders never seem to want to shake hands with Leader. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Coz-1's national animal is the Dolly Varden, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Coz-1 is ranked 78,143^rd in the world and 1^st in Cozumel for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 3,819.39 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.