The Empire of Carcinization is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 5.657 billion Carcinizationians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The tiny, liberal, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.7%.

The thriving Carcinizationian economy, worth 362 trillion bitcoins a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Cheese Exports, and Information Technology. Average income is 63,992 bitcoins, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 226,512 per year while the poor average 13,053, a ratio of 17.4 to 1.

Crime is a problem. Carcinization's national animal is the beaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Carcinization is ranked 102,158^th in the world and 1^st in Crabs of the Apocalypse for Most Beautiful Environments, with 562.84 pounds of wildlife per square mile.