The Republic of Carl Island is a massive, safe nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, digital currency, and pith helmet sales. The quiet, industrious population of 1.622 billion Carl Islandians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 38.5%.

The strong Carl Islandian economy, worth 99.2 trillion Golds a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 61,188 Golds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Carl Island City's back alleys are rife with sausage eating, a burger chain recently changed its name to Mack Donaldz for legal reasons, cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry, and reflection is vital for badly behaved politicians. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Carl Island's national animal is the Clam, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Carl Island is ranked 101,706^th in the world and 520^th in The grimy backyard of Bigej for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 84.56 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.