The Democratic People's Republic of Karlica is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Edison Wintone with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, daily referendums, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cynical population of 5.463 billion Karlicans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of San Outran. The average income tax rate is 92.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Karlican economy, worth 658 trillion rupees 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 led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 120,452 rupees, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Kids these days know how to throw a proper punch, nothing gets the party jumping like Edison Wintone specifying how high, immigrants who carry knives on them are presumed to be chefs, and only fully-fledged members of MENSA are allowed to vote. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Karlica's national animal is the eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Mistrozen.

Karlica is ranked 293,237^th in the world and 3,482^nd in the West Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -248.01 on the Scary Big Number Scale.