The Queendom of Caboran is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, public floggings, and compulsory vegetarianism. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.081 billion Caboranians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rico. The average income tax rate is 66.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Caboranian economy, worth 88.6 trillion kroner a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 81,974 kroner, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Criminals and college students are taking an interest in the government's new weed-killing program, space shuttles are lying silent on the runway till the Space Agency can work out how to fit a creche and a meditation room into their next spacecraft, autopsies often involve only cursory examination, and universities spend millions removing ivy from their walls to avoid accusations of elitism. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Caboran's national animal is the alpaca, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Caboran is ranked 291,924^th in the world and 2,618^th in The North Pacific for Largest Black Market, with 36.0 billion Standard Monetary Units.