The People's Republic of Karmasia is a huge, socially progressive nation, notable for its state-planned economy, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 217 million Karmatiks are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 71.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Karmasian economy, worth 16.3 trillion Kamarian Rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Tourism. Average income is 75,022 Kamarian Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation is currently revamping its entire education system, the government pours millions of Kamarian Rubles into rehabilitation programs annually, Leader has been nicknamed 'Robomop', and one-man canoes fitted with the latest tracking technology leave no room for one man. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Karmasia's national animal is the Kamari Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Karmasia is ranked 73,004^th in the world and 1,512^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 105.53 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.