The Republic of Calcificia is a huge, safe nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, frequent executions, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 396 million Calcificians enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 58.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Calcifician economy, worth 29.4 trillion New Taiwan Dollars a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Woodchip Exports, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 74,131 New Taiwan Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The phrase 'spreading like wildfire' is no longer in the public lexicon, scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied Kiwi, the government response to disaster victims starving for bread is "let them eat stale cake", and government employees from Calcificia dominate international lumberjack competitions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Calcificia's national animal is the Kiwi, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Calcificia is ranked 39,586^th in the world and 39^th in Arctica for Highest Food Quality, scoring 41.74 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.