The Republic of Cosmolytic is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 582 million Cosmolyticians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 16.0%.

The Cosmolytician economy, worth 34.6 trillion pattieses a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Basket Weaving, and Gambling. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 59,458 pattieses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.5 times as much as the poorest.

Foreign nations kill migratory animals at random in the hope that Cosmolytic will pay them to stop, the caged-bird trade is singing, science labs across the country languish in cobwebs as the government turns its attentions to spiritual matters, and prisoners have been known to host cooking and home décor television shows. Crime is almost non-existent. Cosmolytic's national animal is the Squid, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Cosmolytic is ranked 58,243^rd in the world and 22^nd in Federation of Martian Colonies for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 4,112.34 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.