The People's Republic of Karmasia is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, ban on automobiles, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 217 million Karmatiks are ruled with an iron fist by the socialist government, which grants its people the freedom to do whatever they like so long as it doesn't involve getting richer than anybody else or challenging the government.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 71.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Karmasian economy, worth 16.2 trillion Kamarian Rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Tourism. Average income is 74,525 Kamarian Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours, polygraphs are relegated to the dungeon exhibit in castle museums, international television adverts praise the nation as a worker's paradise, and the nation is currently revamping its entire education system. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Karmasia's national animal is the Kamari Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Karmasia is ranked 74,798^th in the world and 1,544^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 103.54 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.