The Democratic Republic of Cortlandt Manor is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by President Boxer with an even hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, anti-smoking policies, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cheerful population of 19.419 billion Cortlandians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Westchester. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Cortlandt Manorian economy, worth a remarkable 2,412 trillion Spennies a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 124,236 Spennies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Maximum security Cortlandt Manorian subway stations inspire prison systems around the world, torture is commonly used to extract information from suspected criminals, anything is permissible when wearing latex gloves, and foreign leaders are advising that President Boxer's letters must have gotten lost in the mail. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cortlandt Manor's national animal is the Dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Judaism.

Cortlandt Manor is ranked 2,179^th in the world and 21^st in Europeia for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 3,979.19 on the Clooney Contribution Index.