The United Star League of Karthel is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by The Twelve Comets with an iron fist, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 3.449 billion Karthelians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bennen. The average income tax rate is 72.9%.

The very strong Karthelian economy, worth 190 trillion Leaguer Standards a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Cheese Exports, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 55,176 Leaguer Standards, with the richest citizens earning 5.0 times as much as the poorest.

Sleep-deprived officials are known to collapse after late night revision for their examinations, students are known to arrive at school in their pyjamas, The Twelve Comets lives life on the open road - complete with groupies, and young adults are stepping outside for the first time in ages after video games were recently banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Karthel's national animal is the Lyriad, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Cult of Duokarathas.

Karthel is ranked 12,816^th in the world and 4^th in Aeternas for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 4,584.88 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.