The Republic of Republica de la Costa Soleada is a massive, safe nation, notable for its punitive income tax rates and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.635 billion Republica de la Costa Soleadans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 66.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Republica de la Costa Soleadan economy, worth 86.6 trillion Soleadan Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Pizza Delivery, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 32,864 Soleadan Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Many friends and relatives of Leader have been given ambassador jobs in tropical island nations, pregnancy tests are under fire from the government for being marketed only to women, the entire entry for Republica de la Costa Soleada in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the World reads 'mostly harmless', and diplomatic missions typically end with a flurry of childish insults, accusations and phlegm. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Republica de la Costa Soleada's national animal is the Dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Republica de la Costa Soleada is ranked 28,587^th in the world and 216^th in Europeia for Safest, scoring 109.57 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.