The Most Serene Republic of Coucou is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Cardea Fauna with an even hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, anti-smoking policies, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate population of 1.478 billion Coucouans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Miluna. The average income tax rate is 91.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Coucouan economy, worth 194 trillion Døges a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 131,728 Døges, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens seem fixated on 105m x 45m rectangles, anti-government web sites are springing up, the needs of the living outweigh the needs of the dead, and the banshee wail foretells skies of death. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Coucou's national animal is the Saber-Toothed Squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Coucou is ranked 279,375^th in the world and 4,876^th in The East Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -12.07 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.