The Republic of Karnak and Luxor is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, infamous sell-swords, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 210 million Karnak and Luxorians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, outspoken government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Industry, and Administration also on the agenda, while International Aid and Spirituality aren't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 11.3%.

The thriving Karnak and Luxorian economy, worth 11.8 trillion Nefer-nubs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 56,322 Nefer-nubs, with the richest citizens earning 5.9 times as much as the poorest.

The government has spent days debating the merits of a petition calling for a ban on sporks, coalition governments are essential to passing new laws, search and rescue forces now accept cheques and all major credit cards, and former bars are desperately trying to re-brand themselves as cafés. Crime, especially youth-related, is a problem. Karnak and Luxor's national animal is the Steppe Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Karnak and Luxor is ranked 99,728^th in the world and 2^nd in Westkapelle home for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 85.73 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.