The Most Serene Republic of Caladani is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and infamous sell-swords. The cynical population of 379 million Caladanians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 77.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Caladanian economy, worth 10.3 trillion denariis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 27,123 denariis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Billions of denariis are being poured into a space program, Caladanian watches list strained wrists as a common side effect, Caladani has been recently classified as an international menace after 'liberating' several nearby territories, and intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Caladani's national animal is the gryphon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Caladani is ranked 87,107^th in the world and 2,098^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Patriotic, with 16.56 flags saluted per person per day.