The Commonwealth of Charlesplot is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 835 million Charlesplotians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 66.2%.

The powerhouse Charlesplotian economy, worth 63.0 trillion currencies a year, is quite specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 75,476 currencies, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 286,352 per year while the poor average 13,810, a ratio of 20.7 to 1.

Drivers regularly pull over for nonexistent police cars, exiles see that the line where the sky meets the sea is just clouds and rain, serial killers who are released early distribute death but not their seed, and buses are widely regarded as the safest way to travel. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Charlesplot's national animal is the animal, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Charlesplot is ranked 201,029^th in the world and 119^th in Charleslandia for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring zero on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.