The Legacy of Charlyn is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Miss Charlyn with a fair hand, and remarkable for its absence of drug laws, suspicion of poets, and devotion to social welfare. The democratic population of 27.617 billion Charlynans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded, outspoken government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Charlynia. The average income tax rate is 82.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Charlynian economy, worth 279 trillion Euros a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 10,085 Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The populace has developed a mortal fear of the woods, psychological disorders are a taboo subject, The Worship of Charlyn has been named as Charlyn's national religion, and Miss Charlyn has just been declared ruler of Charlyn in an international press conference. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Charlyn's national animal is the horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Worship of Charlyn.

Charlyn is ranked 123,343^rd in the world and 1^st in WaifuLand for Smartest Citizens, with 33.23 quips per hour.