The Republic of Kujop is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 804 million Kujopians are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Public Transport. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 14.2%.

The very strong Kujopian economy, worth 44.4 trillion Kujopian Jops a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 55,245 Kujopian Jops, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 162,958 per year while the poor average 14,732, a ratio of 11.1 to 1.

College students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region, Kujop has designated Kujop City as its capital city, and it is illegal to make racist remarks in public. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Kujop's national animal is the Kujopian Bear, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Kujop is ranked 233,644^th in the world and 9^th in THE REGION OF THE LOST BACTERIA for Nicest Citizens, with 11.33 average smiles per day.