The Efficient Corporation of Karatengisa is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Schlumberge with an even hand, and renowned for its avant-garde cinema, infamous sell-swords, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 23.972 billion Karatengisans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The minute, corrupt government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Oil City. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Karatengisan economy, worth a remarkable 7,063 trillion petro $s a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 294,648 petro $s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Government officials are phoning up good-looking celebrities to say they want to breed with them, the arms industry is backed by government subsidies and harsh anti-protest laws are in place, Karatengisan tourists are encouraged to hand out spare condoms to locals while on vacation, and most ambassadors from Karatengisa retire only a few years after being appointed. Crime is totally unknown. Karatengisa's national animal is the Loxochoncha eichwaldi, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Karatengisa is ranked 287,807^th in the world and 5,524^th in the South Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 0.25 average smiles per day.