The Concordate of Abcariare is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by High Steward Marcellion Draeve with an even hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, keen interest in outer space, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, devout population of 3.448 billion Abcarites are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Klyros. The average income tax rate is 95.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Abcariarean economy, worth 608 trillion lumens a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 176,450 lumens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Business owners return from long vacations to find their factories have been turned into homeless shelters, libraries have replaced overdue book fines with mandatory mental health assessments, tax-payers are funding ever more extravagant movie projects, and 100-year-old politicians are now a thing of the past. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Abcariare's national animal is the whooping crane, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Concordis.

Abcariare is ranked 9,772^nd in the world and 112^th in 10000 Islands for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 429.23 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.