The Republic of Matt Cottrell is a colossal, safe nation, notable for its frequent executions, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed population of 3.225 billion Matt Cottrellians 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 enormous, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 63.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Matt Cottrellian economy, worth 147 trillion bitcoins a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Basket Weaving, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 45,704 bitcoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Doctors spend more time writing sick notes than caring for the sick, homeless people can be found sleeping on streets in front of unoccupied second homes, cars are banned, and the police double as repo men. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Matt Cottrell's national animal is the fox, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Matt Cottrell is ranked 124,889^th in the world and 26^th in AFL for Most Developed, scoring 57.71 on the Human Development Index.