The United Socialist States of Caracital is a huge, efficient nation, ruled by Kael Orionis with a fair hand, and remarkable for its triple-decker prams, compulsory military service, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 898 million Caracitalians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, pro-business government prioritizes Defense, with Spirituality, Administration, and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Welfare and Social Policy aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Caracital City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 15.0%.

The powerhouse Caracitalian economy, worth 63.0 trillion ziens a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 70,189 ziens, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 364,641 per year while the poor average 7,307, a ratio of 49.9 to 1.

Bike rage is all the rage, conscientious objectors are hanged as traitors, school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp, and shooting someone has never been safer. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a capable police force. Caracital's national animal is the Emu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.