The Protectorate of Carlos Eduardo is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its punitive income tax rates, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 18.672 billion Carlos Eduardoans 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 Welfare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Chayofa. The average income tax rate is 72.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Carlos Eduardoan economy, worth 488 trillion Euros 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 dominated by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 26,136 Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Attendance of fathers at PTA meetings is at an all-time high, town nameplates frequently raise giggles from passing tourists, citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits, and droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Carlos Eduardo's national animal is the Gato, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Carlos Eduardo is ranked 249,263^rd in the world and 3^rd in The Greatest Freak Show on Earth for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -6.38 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.