The Community of Charliewaynia is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, ban on automobiles, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 351 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 73.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Charliewaynian economy, worth 8.89 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 highly specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 25,329 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 166,655^th in the world and 535^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 750.18 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.