The Technocracy of Karazan is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Fabricator-General Cael with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service, vat-grown people, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 31.069 billion Karazanites love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Telok Peak. The average income tax rate is 24.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Karazanian economy, worth a remarkable 6,803 trillion Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 218,980 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All statues and paintings of dogs are being destroyed to avoid offending cat-lovers, kids these days know how to throw a proper punch, Karazanian diplomacy is by the book, and kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Karazan's national animal is the Miniature Tarrasque, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Karazan is ranked 648^th in the world and 17^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 1,226.31 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.