The Republic of Kartavia is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, anti-smoking policies, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-working, democratic population of 651 million Kartavians 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, pro-business government is primarily concerned with Education, with Industry, Administration, and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Social Policy aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ardinta. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 13.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Kartavian economy, worth 68.8 trillion Kartars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Soda Sales. Average income is an impressive 105,630 Kartars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 352,158 per year while the poor average 23,590, a ratio of 14.9 to 1.

The nation is known abroad mostly for its Parliamentary antics, anti-government political posters adorn every building like wallpaper, citizens are exhausted from weekly general elections, and Maxtopian Grass flags adorn every college dorm room. Crime is totally unknown. Kartavia's national animal is the Lynx, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Kartavia is ranked 144,390^th in the world and 116^th in The League for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 1,659.16 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.