The Empire of Lord Carlisle is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Emperor Carlisle I with an iron fist, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, ubiquitous missile silos, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, cheerful population of 20.191 billion Walbardians 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 relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Walbard City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Walbardian economy, worth a remarkable 3,303 trillion Viras a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Retail, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 163,600 Viras, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,070,928 per year while the poor average 9,821, a ratio of 109 to 1.

Starry-eyed convention goers have their heads in the clouds, giggling teens are asked to put their mouths on rubber dolls, AI chatbots generate grayscale images when asked for a picture of the truth, and Walbardian husbands are dead good at fathering kids. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Lord Carlisle's national animal is the Clown Fish, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Anglicanism.

Lord Carlisle is ranked 45,971^st in the world and 1^st in The United Kingdom for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 5,448.9 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.