The Burning World of United Calanworie is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Lily Lacerta with an even hand, and notable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 16.454 billion United Calanworieans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 90.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient United Calanworiean economy, worth a remarkable 1,857 trillion vapors a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 112,860 vapors, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Visiting the best United Calanworiean restaurants requires keeping a visa on file, most of the nation's wealthy aristocrats are dentists, cogitators and mass debaters are skiving off work to hang around the National Symposium Park, and United Calanworieans incessantly needle their doctors for relief. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. United Calanworie's national animal is the essence, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

United Calanworie is ranked 259,270^th in the world and 156^th in Karma for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -5.6 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.