The Most Serene Republic of Karanta is a colossal, safe nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, devout population of 6.427 billion Karantans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 61.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Karantan economy, worth 447 trillion Karants a year, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 69,572 Karants, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A soldier's body is a temple, city workers have declared that rolling markets aren't good for business after all, politicians sweat as journalists scour internet archives for any mention of them, and nobody likes bad boys any more. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Karanta's national animal is the Blue eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Karanta is ranked 60,621^st in the world and 88^th in United Kingdom for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 4,383.21 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.