The Community of Carmo City is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its public floggings, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, devout population of 2.559 billion Carmo Cityians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 70.9%.

The very strong Carmo Cityian economy, worth 212 trillion Corins 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 slick, highly efficient black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Trout Farming. 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 83,158 Corins, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 290,891 per year while the poor average 17,272, a ratio of 16.8 to 1.

Foreign leaders' Twitcher accounts are monitored for potential threats to national security, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, bargain-hunting is considered unpatriotic, and understaffed slavers offer highballs when asked to 'pass the screwdriver' during household maintenance. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Carmo City's national animal is the Marlin, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Carmo City is ranked 160,404^th in the world and 6,351^st in Osiris for Largest Populations, with 2.56 billion capita.