The Colony of Calicaro is a tiny, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 10 million Calicaroans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 21.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The fair Calicaroan economy, worth 359 billion Sterns a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 35,951 Sterns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Employees who skip lunch to avoid sub-par cafeteria food risk getting fired, the "blue screen of death" forces many trials to be either aborted or restarted, the World Colony Games have been won again by Calicaro as no other country cares enough to compete, and robosexual marriages are increasingly common. Crime is almost non-existent. Calicaro's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Calicaro is ranked 145,073^rd in the world and 158^th in Aesica for Highest Poor Incomes, with 24,197.73 Standard Monetary Units.