The Constitutional Monarchy of Umbral Carin is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Pit Lord Vexius with an iron fist, and notable for its infamous sell-swords, public floggings, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 4.093 billion Carinians are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 86.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Carinian economy, worth 938 trillion bits 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Retail. 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 an amazing 229,333 bits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

The government has declared its commitment to multilateralism, Animal Liberationists are regularly arrested, the government regularly publishes lengthy reports on its own excessive recordkeeping, and ignorance is considered a politically desirable quality. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Umbral Carin's national animal is the dragon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Violetism.

Umbral Carin is ranked 18,230^th in the world and 235^th in the Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 49.54 flags saluted per person per day.