The Little Land of Kareniya is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Sanya Nikoleyeva with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 12.372 billion Karenians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kotov. The average income tax rate is 94.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Karenian economy, worth a remarkable 1,403 trillion Medyaks a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 113,477 Medyaks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A shipwreck is everyone's fault but the captain's, sex changes are routinely performed at Kareniya's hospitals, the government seizes corporate assets it deems 'scary enough', and students are known to arrive at school in their pyjamas. Crime is totally unknown. Kareniya's national animal is the European Wildcat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kareniya is ranked 305,199^th in the world and 1^st in Yevropa for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -7.48 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.