The Grand Duchy of Caritsteria is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, parental licensing program, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 8.444 billion Caritsterians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 67.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Caritsterian economy, worth 369 trillion marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Cheese Exports. Average income is 43,760 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned, passwords to nuclear codes must now contain upper and lower case characters, stony-faced prosecutors play loud gangster rap music during court proceedings, and nothing gets the party jumping like Leader specifying how high. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Caritsteria's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Caritsteria is ranked 44,668^th in the world and 6^th in Keep of Darkness XL for Lowest Crime Rates, with 75.88 law-abiding acts per hour.