Aha! Just sent off my rant-post of the day, when...what should appear in the
inbox but the 'word of the day', which is...!!
Cockaigne \kah-KAYN\, noun:
An imaginary land of ease and luxury.
Outside, in the dark, a wobbly patch of life upon the blue snow, the deer
perhaps browsed, her soft blob of a nose rapturously sunk in the chilly
winter
greenery, her modest brain-stem steeped in some dream of a Cockaigne for
herbivores.
-- John Updike, _Toward the End of Time_ (http://www.amazon.com/exec/ob
idos/ASIN/0449000419/ref=nosim/lexico)