The Republic of Calabo is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Josiah Walker with an iron fist, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, avowedly heterosexual populace, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 6.163 billion Calaboans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Calabotopia. The average income tax rate is 92.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Calaboan economy, worth a remarkable 1,182 trillion Fazdaxes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 191,856 Fazdaxes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

Songs of praise to Josiah Walker are filled with coded messages from the resistance, citizens know not to ask what their country can do for them but what they can do as chained slaves for their country, the government has implemented minimum wage laws, and brave curators do battle with disorganised government libraries. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Calabo's national animal is the Black Panther, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Christianity.

Calabo is ranked 8,934^th in the world and 210^th in The East Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 91.26 on the Human Development Index.