The Weirdness of Karel Appel is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Christiaan Karel Appel with an iron fist, and remarkable for its frequent executions, national health service, and fear of technology. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 45.202 billion Karel Appelians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Industry, with Law & Order, Education, and Defense also on the agenda, while Environment and Welfare aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New York. The average income tax rate is 20.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Karel Appelian economy, worth a remarkable 6,755 trillion euros 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, fairly diversified black market in Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, Retail, and Arms Manufacturing. 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 impressive 149,454 euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

The nation has always been at war with Bigtopia, a Nederland Tourist Association survey has rated Karel Appel #1 for number twos, the best doughnut stores have been taken over by foreign police officers, and stern tutting by international commentators has persuaded Karel Appel to disarm. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. Karel Appel's national animal is the lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Atheism.

Karel Appel is ranked 110,617^th in the world and 123^rd in Nederland for Lowest Crime Rates, with 64.62 law-abiding acts per hour.