The Allied States of Kargagania is a small, safe nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 29 million Kargags are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 66.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The developing Kargaganian economy, worth 893 billion ylins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Trout Farming, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Pizza Delivery. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 30,805 ylins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers, birth rates have hit an all-time low, umbrellas are back in fashion, and EpiPen sales have skyrocketed. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kargagania's national animal is the crazy ant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kargagania is ranked 81,920^th in the world and 236^th in Refugia for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 2,574.71 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.