The Republic of Charles 63 is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, avant-garde cinema, and ritual sacrifices. The compassionate, devout population of 423 million Charles 63ians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 33.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Charles 63ian economy, worth 12.0 trillion Coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Book Publishing, Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 28,377 Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Candlelit dinners are less romantic with a flickering LED, nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines, 100-year-old politicians are now a thing of the past, and commuters travel in zigzags to avoid stalking accusations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Charles 63's national animal is the Animal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Charles 63 is ranked 316,334^th in the world and 239^th in Charleslandia for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -10.95 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.