The ExaCivilization of The Ctan Species is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Integrated Core Data Nodes with an even hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, daily referendums, and national health service. The compassionate, cheerful population of 14.155 billion Ctan enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Peth Kethona Metacomplex. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Ctan economy, worth a remarkable 6,191 trillion Basic Units 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 dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 437,419 Basic Units, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Supreme Court vehemently protects civil rights and the right to privacy, an endless multinational bureaucracy connects the Red Bloc, at the edge of the final frontier space's biggest missile platform is about to unfold, and citizens are strongly encouraged to breathe less so as to limit the carbon footprint. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Ctan Species's national animal is the multi-spectrum Control Virus TN4, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is universal atheism.

The Ctan Species is ranked 163^rd in the world and 2^nd in SICON for Smartest Citizens, with 382.29 quips per hour.