The Federal State of Caliarizomex is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Supreme Leader with an iron fist, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, anti-smoking policies, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 3.23 billion Caliarizomexians 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, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arical. The average income tax rate is 66.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Caliarizomexian economy, worth 332 trillion kroner a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 102,787 kroner, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Many of the unemployed have had the fight taken out of them, organised sports are frowned upon as frivolous, a valid legal defense is 'dead men tell no tales', and children who can't memorize their multiplication tables are sent to the mines. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Caliarizomex's national animal is the emu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Agnosticism.

Caliarizomex is ranked 64,981^st in the world and 556^th in Europe for Most Cultured, scoring 69 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.