The Protectorate of KL-1 is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its public floggings, soft-spoken computers, and state-planned economy. The devout population of 28.3 billion KL-1ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized government prioritizes Defense, although Healthcare, Law & Order, and Industry are also considered important. The average income tax rate is 40.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong KL-1ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,567 trillion $$s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Tourism. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 55,377 $$s, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Giggling elementary school newspaper reporters want to know why Leader is a silly poophead, glamping KL-1ians won't sleep in a tent that doesn't include a Jacuzzi, troop transports blacken the sky as the military commences Operation Desert Ocean, and a generation of children conceived in hell and born in strife is growing up inside government-run care villages. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. KL-1's national animal is the Dolly Varden, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

KL-1 is ranked 145,646^th in the world and 1^st in Key Largo for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 75.55 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.