The Federal Republic of Kartujia is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Mauricio III with a fair hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 2.209 billion Kartujans 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 Healthcare, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Asvestina. The average income tax rate is 52.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Kartujian economy, worth 89.0 trillion Tesseriates a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Cheese Exports, Trout Farming, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 40,276 Tesseriates, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are frequently searched for illegal weapons, insolent whistleblowers receive their just desserts on deserted isles, unused plastic recycling bins are being dumped into landfills by the tonne, and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is illegal. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kartujia's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianism.

Kartujia is ranked 212,119^th in the world and 8,345^th in The North Pacific for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -6.71 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.