The Community of Charliewaynia is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 285 million Charliewaynians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 71.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Charliewaynian economy, worth 5.75 trillion Barney Bucks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 20,180 Barney Bucks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens may cast their vote over the internet or phone, the government is spending billions of Barney Bucks on a fancy space probe to find a planet that may not even exist, recent protests against birds flying too low have resulted in bloodshed, and cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Charliewaynia's national animal is the Otter, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Charliewaynia is ranked 194,069^th in the world and 542^nd in The Communist Bloc for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -2 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.