The United Kingdom of Cotrace is a huge, safe nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 599 million Cotraceans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 83.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Cotracean economy, worth 61.6 trillion pennies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 102,869 pennies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Oddly patriotic flash mobs spontaneously sing the national anthem, museums occasionally burn priceless artifacts in order to intimidate foreign curators, concert halls sport signs proclaiming "No Shorts, Sandals or Swastikas", and conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cotrace's national animal is the Hinny, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cotrace is ranked 270,769^th in the world and 142^nd in Valaryia for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 16,870.54 Standard Monetary Units.