The Kingdom of Karterstan is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by King Karter XVI with an iron fist, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, sprawling nuclear power plants, and aversion to nipples. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 11.101 billion Karterstanis are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kartergrad. The average income tax rate is 59.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Karterstanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,507 trillion Tersts a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 135,804 Tersts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Contestants on Karterstan's Got Talent are screened by the government to make sure that they actually have talent, pre-takeoff checks last longer than the flights themselves, customs turn away those considered to have an unfavourable ethnicity, and tourists need only sign on the dotted line to become citizens. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Karterstan's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Church of Karterstan.

Karterstan is ranked 306,137^th in the world and 70^th in The Alliance of Dictators for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -14.35 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.