The Community of Congraaatulations is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its absence of drug laws, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.893 billion Congraaatulationsians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 51.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Congraaatulationsian economy, worth 32.4 trillion Congratulations a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Cheese Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 17,095 Congratulations, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, and both diets and economic output are growing leaner with recent restrictions to free trade. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Congraaatulations's national animal is the Congraaatulations, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Congraaatulations is ranked 196,314^th in the world and 10^th in Vechnost for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 869.94 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.