The Republic of K 4 is a mid-sized, orderly nation, renowned for its frequent executions, suspicion of poets, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 69 million K 4ians 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, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Industry, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.1%.

The powerhouse K 4ian economy, worth 5.12 trillion candy cane gold bars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Basket Weaving, and Soda Sales. Average income is 74,192 candy cane gold bars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 381,440 per year while the poor average 7,889, a ratio of 48.3 to 1.

Scenic beaches are now protected by massive concrete walls, public projects are synonymous with yawn-inducing conformity, oddly patriotic flash mobs spontaneously sing the national anthem, and internet searches for the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered K 4ian weed picker are way up. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. K 4's national animal is the bat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

K 4 is ranked 298,747^th in the world and 8^th in Freyaria for Largest Black Market, with 22.0 billion Standard Monetary Units.