The Confederacy of The Four Carolinas is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by President Clyde Draughn with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, fear of technology, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 1.175 billion Carolinians are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The medium-sized, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Charlotte. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 29.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Carolinian economy, worth 138 trillion Carolina Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 117,866 Carolina Dollars, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 688,069 per year while the poor average 9,499, a ratio of 72.4 to 1.

Open-casket funerals are avoided at all cost, houses and businesses are bulldozed to make way for ever-expanding cemeteries, apprentice builders get teased for wearing hard hats, and most Carolinians would sell their own grandmother. Crime is a problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. The Four Carolinas's national animal is the Rattle Snake, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Southern Baptism.

The Four Carolinas is ranked 45,563^rd in the world and 902^nd in Balder for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 4,939.67 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.