The Commonwealth of Charlesplot is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its enslaved workforce, lack of airports, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate population of 828 million Charlesplotians 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 66.2%.

The powerhouse Charlesplotian economy, worth 62.5 trillion currencies a year, is quite specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 75,476 currencies, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 286,352 per year while the poor average 13,810, a ratio of 20.7 to 1.

Drivers regularly pull over for nonexistent police cars, exiles see that the line where the sky meets the sea is just clouds and rain, serial killers who are released early distribute death but not their seed, and buses are widely regarded as the safest way to travel. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Charlesplot's national animal is the animal, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Charlesplot is ranked 258,960^th in the world and 104^th in Charleslandia for Largest Populations, with 828 million capita.