The United States of Calicate is a gargantuan, genial nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and smutty television. The compassionate, hard-working population of 12.667 billion Calicateans 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dallington. The average income tax rate is 97.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Calicatean economy, worth a remarkable 3,228 trillion cal dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 254,868 cal dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours, childhood friends of Leader are living it large abroad at the taxpayers' expense, the government is engaging in an agricultural trade war with Maxtopia, and the wheel has been patented by at least a hundred people. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Calicate's national animal is the Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Calicate is ranked 290,992^nd in the world and 11,398^th in Lazarus for Most Primitive, scoring -716.7 on the Scary Big Number Scale.