The United Empire of Carica is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Johnbill Buckdale with an even hand, and notable for its pith helmet sales, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 2.79 billion Caricans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Carpilia. The average income tax rate is 74.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Carican economy, worth 277 trillion colars a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 99,517 colars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Foreign policy is mostly just to smile and hope for the best, Johnbill Buckdale can be seen doing doughnuts in a new Rambogini, the government has ordered a moratorium on referenda, and the nation's atlases tend to go out of date every few weeks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Carica's national animal is the Whale Shark, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Carica is ranked 28,938^th in the world and 14^th in Arctica for Lowest Crime Rates, with 83.51 law-abiding acts per hour.