The Protectorate of Calibarn is a small, safe nation, renowned for its pith helmet sales, public floggings, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 36 million Calibarnians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 44.2%.

The sizeable but inefficient Calibarnian economy, worth 1.72 trillion marks a year, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Woodchip Exports, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 47,754 marks, with the richest citizens earning 5.4 times as much as the poorest.

War vets look after war animals, chocolate in Calibarn has its flavour enhanced by the salty tears of enslaved factory workers, Scoutmasters debate whether luxury log cabins defeat the purpose of camping, and relations with Merovingia are as cold as Calibarn's high-security cell blocks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Calibarn's national animal is the lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Calibarn is ranked 181,746^th in the world and 488^th in Council of Asia for Highest Average Incomes, with 47,754.32 Standard Monetary Units.