The Pink Commonwealth of Carora is a massive, genial nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.775 billion Carorans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 76.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Caroran economy, worth 365 trillion echoes a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 96,692 echoes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Many friends and relatives of Leader have been given ambassador jobs in tropical island nations, charity workers dole out hardtack from behind designer sunglasses, male tourists tend to be fearful of Carora's deadly femme fatales, and the mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas. Crime is well under control. Carora's national animal is the cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Carora is ranked 168,250^th in the world and 2,672^nd in The East Pacific for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 1,339.4 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.