The Communist Proletarian Union of Carrico is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Ti Kodzo with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, complete lack of prisons, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 6.593 billion Communists enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Port Visa. The average income tax rate is 98.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Communist economy, worth 867 trillion Trans-Union Labour Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism. Average income is an impressive 131,528 Trans-Union Labour Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The diplomatic corps stinks, smiling in public is seen as criminally suspicious behaviour, euthanasia is legal, and 50% of adverts on children's television are for clothes made of cotton wool. Crime is totally unknown. Carrico's national animal is the Xoloitzcuintli, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Carrico is ranked 4,356^th in the world and 37^th in The Internationale for Most Developed, scoring 94.4 on the Human Development Index.