The Colony of Calicaro is a tiny, cultured nation, notable for its stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 9 million Calicaroans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 22.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The fair Calicaroan economy, worth 319 billion Sterns a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 35,449 Sterns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

The aims of top-secret Calicaroan science projects revolve around designing the perfect robot woman, more sidewalk is dedicated to animals than people, employees who skip lunch to avoid sub-par cafeteria food risk getting fired, and the "blue screen of death" forces many trials to be either aborted or restarted. Crime is almost non-existent. Calicaro's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Calicaro is ranked 272,790^th in the world and 208^th in Aesica for Most Developed, scoring 50.51 on the Human Development Index.