The Swiss Bear Hunters of Carco is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Ω with an iron fist, and renowned for its enslaved workforce, keen interest in outer space, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 4.365 billion Carcoans 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Revjack. The average income tax rate is 79.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Carcoan economy, worth 565 trillion Eddies 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 a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. 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 impressive 129,548 Eddies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Jaywalking is punishable by public flogging, students who do not recite the national anthem each morning have to drop and give their teacher 50, loudmouthed journalists are given the chop, and extraordinary rendition is nothing out of the ordinary. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Carco's national animal is the Mantis Shrimp, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Carco is ranked 15,030^th in the world and 10^th in New Warsaw Pact for Most Corrupt Governments, with 121.72 kickbacks per hour.