The Corporations Republic of Cartalma is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, notable for its otherworldly petting zoo, smutty television, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 16.419 billion Cartalmen enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The minute, corrupt, liberal, pro-business government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Education, although Industry and Healthcare are also considered important, while Environment and Defense aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sfax. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Cartalman economy, worth a remarkable 3,058 trillion 10mm bullets a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Gambling, and Soda Sales. Average income is an impressive 186,270 10mm bullets, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,685,003 per year while the poor average 2,457, a ratio of 685 to 1.

Leader can be seen doing doughnuts in a new Rambogini, commuters and their desktops both bemoan their hard drives, Sfax has restaurants serving every meat from aardvark to zebra, and inter-species marriages are ignored by the government. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Cartalma's national animal is the horse, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is invisible hand of the free market.

Cartalma is ranked 174,498^th in the world and 1,797^th in the Pacific for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 1,058.16 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.