The Republic of San Carlos Islands is a massive, safe nation, ruled by President Kurnushkina with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, compulsory military service, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 1.948 billion San Carlos Islanders enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of San Carlos City. The average income tax rate is 24.9%.

The frighteningly efficient San Carlos Islander economy, worth 261 trillion San Carlos Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 134,138 San Carlos Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.9 times as much as the poorest.

When electric cars arrived nobody heard them coming, broken suspension systems are giving auto repair shops plenty of business, an enormous health awareness programme is underway, and soldiers find that home gadgets and power tools are more effective as improvised weapons than the guns they've been issued. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. San Carlos Islands's national animal is the Kermode bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

San Carlos Islands is ranked 138,987^th in the world and 138^th in Federation of Conservative Nations for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -10 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.