The United Socialist States of Coco Crab is a huge, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and public floggings. The compassionate, democratic population of 730 million Coco Crabians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government is primarily concerned with Education, although Administration, Healthcare, and Industry are also considered important, while Spirituality and Law & Order aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Coco Crabberra. The average income tax rate is 68.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Coco Crabian economy, worth 75.3 trillion Cocrab Dollarydoos a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 103,158 Cocrab Dollarydoos, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People who have never eaten chicken are told it tastes a bit like crocodile, autopsies often involve only cursory examination, traumatised refugees have a full bedpan shoved into their hands along with their immigration papers, and voting is voluntary. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Coco Crab's national animal is the Coconut Crab, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Coco Crab is ranked 130,936^th in the world and 269^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 1,342.81 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.