The Principality of Karlsburgh is a huge, safe nation, ruled by Prince Karl VI with an even hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, sprawling nuclear power plants, and daily referendums. The compassionate population of 934 million Karlsburghians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Karlsburgh. The average income tax rate is 72.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Karlsburghian economy, worth 63.3 trillion Karls a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 67,761 Karls, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Disaster relief budgets are growing like wildfire, the nation's leader is normally just referred to as "snuggle-wuggle-huggy-bear", dozens of additional foreign policy specialists have been sent to the country's WA Mission, and there's no such thing as bad publicity. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Karlsburgh's national animal is the Sloth, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Karlsburgh is ranked 29,402^nd in the world and 681^st in the South Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 83.24 law-abiding acts per hour.