The Colony of The Caldrasan Representiv is a large, socially progressive nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, irreverence towards religion, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 62 million Caldrasan Representivians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Environment. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.9%.

The very strong Caldrasan Representivian economy, worth 4.45 trillion Caldras a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Pizza Delivery, and Gambling. Average income is 71,841 Caldras, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 213,039 per year while the poor average 19,014, a ratio of 11.2 to 1.

College students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, one tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber, euthanasia is legal, and same-sex marriages are increasingly common. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. The Caldrasan Representiv's national animal is the Stego, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Caldrasan Representiv is ranked 52,005^th in the world and 4^th in Caldrasanian Colonial Empire for Highest Food Quality, scoring 32.83 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.