The Community of Kouvola Commune is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its public floggings, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 749 million Kouvola Communeans 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 large, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kouvola. The average income tax rate is 78.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Kouvola Communean economy, worth 47.5 trillion Grains a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Tourism. Average income is 63,428 Grains, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again, weighted heels are added to military boots to ensure diminutive celebrities meet minimum requirements, boys who take just one date to the high school prom are called 'losers', and the children of Kouvola Commune are often remarked upon for their cheery attitude to extreme violence. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kouvola Commune's national animal is the deer ked, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kouvola Commune is ranked 66,990^th in the world and 926^th in The Communist Bloc for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 457.49 on the Clooney Contribution Index.