The Democratic People's Republic of Karlica is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Edison Wintone with an even hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, fear of technology, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 4.196 billion Karlicans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of San Outran. The average income tax rate is 88.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Karlican economy, worth 505 trillion rupees a year, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 120,386 rupees, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

The Karlican Arts Council pays teenagers to sit through opera performances, state-sanctioned torture is okay so long as there's no icky blood, spontaneous nocturnal decapitation is considered 'death by natural causes' for enemies of Karlica, and for 25 rupees tourists can gawk at the site of national tragedy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Karlica's national animal is the eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Mistrozen.

Karlica is ranked 14,734^th in the world and 211^th in the West Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 94.49 law-abiding acts per hour.