The Holy Empire of Karolosia is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Emperor Karolos with an even hand, and renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, national health service, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 23.509 billion Karolosians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Karolosia. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Karolosian economy, worth a remarkable 6,516 trillion Staters a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 277,206 Staters, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Oil executives can be seen reluctantly cleaning oil-soaked birds, school nurse's offices feature full-service operating suites, an enormous health awareness programme is underway, and people stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Karolosia's national animal is the Lykos, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Kyrionism.

Karolosia is ranked 116,500^th in the world and 5,189^th in Osiris for Most Corrupt Governments, with 8.35 kickbacks per hour.