The Republic of CAF72 is a massive, pleasant nation, notable for its state-planned economy, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 1.599 billion CAF72ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 17.3%.

The CAF72ian economy, worth 43.2 trillion flits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Automobile Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Cheese Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 27,022 flits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

The CAF72ian cut of Apocalypse Now sets the helicopter scene to eerie silence, teachers regularly paddle unruly students, it is now illegal for teens to view any sites except Club Kitten and My Little Donkey, and there's a lot of mouth-breathers about these days. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, thanks to a well-funded police force. CAF72's national animal is the flit.

CAF72 is ranked 203,943^rd in the world and 8,836^th in Lazarus for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 296.44 on the Gilded Widget Scale.