The Winter Sun of House Karstark is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Leader with an even hand, and remarkable for its suspicion of poets. The hard-working population of 14.371 billion House Karstarkians 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of House Karstark City. The average income tax rate is 39.6%.

The House Karstarkian economy, worth 507 trillion Crowns a year, is quite specialized and led by the Cheese Exports industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Information Technology. Average income is 35,333 Crowns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

House Karstark has designated House Karstark City as its capital city and Leader has just been declared ruler of House Karstark in an international press conference. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. House Karstark's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

House Karstark is ranked 107,006^th in the world and 12^th in Union of Independent Regions for Most Valuable International Artwork, with 0.03 Bank.