The Concordant Communes of Calawah is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by High Council with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.467 billion Calawahians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aberdeen. The average income tax rate is 91.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Calawahian economy, worth 304 trillion coles 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 Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 87,943 coles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Worship days have replaced sick days, urban planners beg for just one more lane before bedtime, the judicial branch is strongly influenced by the Communist Party, and art is not complete without a touch of alizarin blood and titanium sweat. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Calawah's national animal is the red fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Calawah is ranked 177,767^th in the world and 6,863^rd in Osiris for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 95.87 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.