The Most Serene Republic of Culinare is a very large, safe nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 250 million Culinareans 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 Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 35.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Culinarean economy, worth 18.4 trillion Entrées a year, is led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Tourism, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 73,492 Entrées, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Re-education centers are being added to most prisons, enemy navies sail within bombardment range of major coastal cities with impunity, leisure is a crime in ski towns, and the government sends submarines to retrieve bodies from shipwrecked submarines. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Culinare's national animal is the food critic, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Culinare is ranked 78,376^th in the world and 25^th in Astellaria for Safest, scoring 92.16 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.