The Holy Empire of Karolosia is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Emperor Karolos with an even hand, and remarkable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, avant-garde cinema, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 24.755 billion Karolosians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Karolosia. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Karolosian economy, worth a remarkable 6,874 trillion Staters a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 277,696 Staters, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Interest rates mysteriously drop whenever the CBK Governor goes house hunting, the endangered saltwater humpback Lykos is only seen in captivity programs, space research funding has hit a recent high while several military bases are being closed down, and rural communities are all but disenfranchised as politicians focus all their attention on winning the deciding urban votes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Karolosia's national animal is the Lykos, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Kyrionism.

Karolosia is ranked 22,996^th in the world and 1,493^rd in Osiris for Most Patriotic, with 49 flags saluted per person per day.