The Free Republic of St Karliam In Castro is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by President Guillermo Santamaria with a fair hand, and notable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, keen interest in outer space, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 42.578 billion Castroans live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The minute, liberal, pro-business government, or what there is of one, is effectively ruled by the Department of Education, with Law & Order and Spirituality not funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Santo Karlo. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.5%.

The enormous but inefficient St Karliam In Castroan economy, worth a remarkable 3,770 trillion loogins a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Gambling, and Retail. Average income is 88,557 loogins, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 290,949 per year while the poor average 20,211, a ratio of 14.4 to 1.

It's not just poseurs who wear oversized sound-cancelling headphones as they walk the city streets, internet searches for the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered St Karliam In Castroan weed picker are way up, when flight control tells pilots to alter course the usual reply is "No, YOU move!", and plain-clothes police officers follow Dàguó tourists everywhere they go. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. St Karliam In Castro's national animal is the howler monkey, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is None.

St Karliam In Castro is ranked 294,184^th in the world and 17^th in Free States of Gaia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 2.1 law-abiding acts per hour.