The Red Bolivarian States of West Calypso is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Nicolás Maduro with an iron fist, and renowned for its closed borders, parental licensing program, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 9.7 billion West Calypsoans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Spirituality, and Administration also on the agenda, while Education and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tropico. The average income tax rate is 98.5%.

The enormous but inefficient West Calypsoan economy, worth a remarkable 1,991 trillion Minoan tala a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 205,359 Minoan tala, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Soldiers' positions are given away by the glint of their bayonets, concert pianists lie about their occupation to avoid ridicule, the national Police Academies have dedicated infant wings, and students who refuse to pray are expelled from school. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. West Calypso's national animal is the little owl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Madurology.

West Calypso is ranked 264,009^th in the world and 1^st in West Calypso for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -963.31 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.