The Republic of Calabo is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Josiah Walker with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service, public floggings, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 5.908 billion Calaboans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Calabotopia. The average income tax rate is 94.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Calaboan economy, worth a remarkable 1,060 trillion Fazdaxes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 179,424 Fazdaxes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Grumpy old house owners demand that pedestrians get off their footpaths, people are more interested in gossip about the private lives of politicians than their policies, a historic rise in the minimum wage has crushed the economy with inflation, and homes have been banned from having any more than one wheel. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Calabo's national animal is the Black Panther, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Christianity.

Calabo is ranked 11,512^th in the world and 245^th in The East Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 106 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.