The Concordant Communes of Calawah is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by High Council with a fair hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.607 billion Calawahians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aberdeen. The average income tax rate is 91.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Calawahian economy, worth 327 trillion coles 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 led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 90,919 coles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every workday begins with group therapy, kids learn to count without the numbers '0' or '1', foreign policy is based upon the principle of sieve and take, and political talk shows often have children as guests whenever they need commentary on world religions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Calawah's national animal is the red fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Calawah is ranked 320,773^rd in the world and 17,309^th in Osiris for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 20.64 on the Bus Surprisal Index.