The Kingdom of Calicov is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Jurich Von Licenstein IV with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and smutty television. The compassionate, humorless population of 2.337 billion Calicovians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Calconiea Prime. The average income tax rate is 90.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Calicovian economy, worth 345 trillion Calconiean Rupies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 147,865 Calconiean Rupies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The well-to-do in Europe are never on time for important appointments, school uniforms are compulsory, the government is well known for declaring war on other countries for suspected slights, and sex changes are routinely performed at Calicov's hospitals. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Calicov's national animal is the Catemsici, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Ephemeral Echoes.

Calicov is ranked 270,024^th in the world and 1,234^th in Europe for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 13,603.67 Standard Monetary Units.