The Biorepublic of Carconia is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Winter with a fair hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, keen interest in outer space, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.896 billion Carconians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Napier. The average income tax rate is 91.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Carconian economy, worth 230 trillion Verdants a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 121,471 Verdants, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Atheists on vacation find Church of the Azure-Star's scriptures make useful doorstops, people who have had childhood imaginary friends are told they can't ever be trusted with guns, advertisements read like science journal articles complete with extensive references, and on graduation day the hats thrown in the air fly high enough to stun passing pigeons. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Carconia's national animal is the Verdanian Forest Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Church of the Azure-Star.

Carconia is ranked 277,613^th in the world and 386^th in Nordic Lands for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -10.49 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.