The People's Republic of The Kop is a small, safe nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The democratic, devout population of 29 million Kopites are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 52.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Kopite economy, worth 1.05 trillion quid a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Cheese Exports, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 36,228 quid, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Grinding bureaucracy has the international wheels of justice turning slowly, napalm is the tool of choice for disabling eco-unfriendly forestry operations, toddlers are wielding machine guns in the name of national defense, and bored politicians often entertain themselves with games of Simon during important votes. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Kop's national animal is the liverbird.

The Kop is ranked 252,297^th in the world and 8^th in The Iron Gulf for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -31.83 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.