The Republic of Charles 48 is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, daily referendums, and frequent executions. The compassionate, devout population of 571 million Charles 48ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 20.7%.

The strong Charles 48ian economy, worth 34.0 trillion Coins a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Automobile Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 59,590 Coins, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 284,758 per year while the poor average 7,312, a ratio of 38.9 to 1.

The government frequently panders to parents with boutique tax credits, a serf by any other name works just as hard, the free market's hand is quite visible, and preservative manufacturers are told to put a lid on it. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Charles 48's national animal is the Animal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Charles 48 is ranked 78,048^th in the world and 36^th in Charleslandia for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 47,255.4 Standard Monetary Units.