The Colony of Karietown is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by President James T Green with an even hand, and remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, unlimited-speed roads, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 1.703 billion Karietownians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Karietown. The average income tax rate is 81.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Karietownian economy, worth 196 trillion guilders a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 115,564 guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Primary candidates are replaced if they fail to compliment President James T Green's hair, they who do not work shall not eat, pedal-powered removal vans are a popular Maxxmas gift for the children of separated parents, and nobody looks each other in the eye at neighborhood block parties any more. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Karietown's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Karietown is ranked 234,942^nd in the world and 9,108^th in Balder for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 21,494.98 Standard Monetary Units.