The Dominion of Charlesmana is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its public floggings, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 1.117 billion Charlesmanans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 54.7%.

The all-consuming Charlesmanan economy, worth 103 trillion currencies a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 92,772 currencies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Snowball fights inaugurate summer breaks, political visitors are forced to stop ten paces from Leader's throne, pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi, and money can't buy happiness but it can buy immunity to prosecution. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Charlesmana's national animal is the animal, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Charlesmana is ranked 259,293^rd in the world and 172^nd in Charleslandia for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -5.05 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.