The Republic of Charles T is a very large, safe nation, notable for its public floggings, parental licensing program, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate population of 488 million Charles Tians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 65.3%.

The Charles Tian economy, worth 26.2 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 black market in Information Technology, Cheese Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip 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 53,764 coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.1 times as much as the poorest.

Black tea is only available on the black market, escargots have lost their charm ever since they started to be called 'cooked land snails', clerics are taught that silence is golden and duct tape is silver, and the statue in the Clarke Plaza has a solar panel for a hat. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Charles T's national animal is the animal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Charles T is ranked 289,818^th in the world and 255^th in Charleslandia for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 18,656.22 Standard Monetary Units.