The Mad Dogs and Englishmen of Joe Cocker is a mammoth, efficient nation, renowned for its fear of technology, frequent executions, and vat-grown people. The hard-nosed population of 5.124 billion Joe Cockerians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sheffield. The average income tax rate is 54.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Joe Cockerian economy, worth 578 trillion pounds 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, broadly diversified black market in Tourism, Retail, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 an impressive 112,832 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Computers are widely considered to be the "devil magic of heathens", politicians that report exaggerated crowd sizes for their speeches are dismissed for being delusional, military service is compulsory, and citizens are less concerned with policy and more concerned with whether politicians "call 'em like they see 'em". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Joe Cocker's national animal is the Barracuda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Joe Cocker is ranked 64,293^rd in the world and 236^th in Concord for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3,394.04 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.