The Slavian People's Army of Carartia is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by President Vitold Urban with an even hand, and renowned for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 4.875 billion Carartians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sokolovo. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 62.7%.

The powerhouse Carartian economy, worth 443 trillion klins 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 large, well-organized black market in Tourism, Information Technology, Pizza Delivery, 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 90,924 klins, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 283,803 per year while the poor average 22,366, a ratio of 12.7 to 1.

Libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars, kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles, military recruitment numbers are down as citizens object on 'moral grounds', and translators have been hired to deal with the varying regional accents during national political debates. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Carartia's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Carartian Orthodox Christianity.

Carartia is ranked 153,497^th in the world and 1^st in Slavania for Lowest Crime Rates, with 61.66 law-abiding acts per hour.