The Commonwealth of Kalaska77 is a massive, safe nation, notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, lack of airports, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate population of 1.544 billion Kalaska77ians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Grandpa Town. The average income tax rate is 62.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Kalaska77ian economy, worth 200 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Tourism, Information Technology, Retail, and Soda Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 129,845 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It's a long jump to get onto the housing ladder, science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous, tabloids publicly shun nurses for not calling home on the weekends, and people who have never eaten chicken are told it tastes a bit like crocodile. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kalaska77's national animal is the panther, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kalaska77 is ranked 31,783^rd in the world and 643^rd in the South Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 5,474.8 on the Gilded Widget Scale.