The People's Socialist Republic of Charliber is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by PM Avery Apex with a fair hand, and notable for its ban on automobiles, keen interest in outer space, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.117 billion Charlibertes are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Libers-Charton. The average income tax rate is 99.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Charliberse economy, worth a remarkable 1,159 trillion dengas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 226,641 dengas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There are six more weeks of winter if a northerner sees her shadow, the government has declared its commitment to multilateralism, anti-government web sites are springing up, and the parliament building has installed a revolving door. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Charliber's national animal is the sus scrofa domesticus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Order of Secular Humanitarianism.

Charliber is ranked 2,600^th in the world and 1^st in Coalition of Domestically Aligned States for Lowest Crime Rates, with 135.05 law-abiding acts per hour.