The Royal City-State of Carmini is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Juliana I with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, complete absence of social welfare, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 15.266 billion Carminians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Amaranth. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Carminian economy, worth a remarkable 3,143 trillion carins a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Soda Sales, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 205,915 carins, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,890,907 per year while the poor average 2,340, a ratio of 808 to 1.

Passengers often cause a stink on public transport, fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding", the people have taken "Hail Juliana I" as an invitation to lob rocks, and chain-gangs are often seen toting barges and lifting bales. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Carmini's national animal is the flamingo, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Carmini is ranked 314,063^rd in the world and 159^th in Atlantian Oceania for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 0.35 Effective Tax Rate.