The Fourth Republic of Calption is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Some One with an even hand, and renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, soft-spoken computers, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless, devout population of 12.922 billion People are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt government is dominated by the Department of Defense, with Education, Industry, and Administration also on the agenda. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dulois. The average income tax rate is 96.8%.

The frighteningly efficient A Person economy, worth a remarkable 6,136 trillion Zimbabwe Dollars 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 amazing 474,869 Zimbabwe Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Colonists who were promised new lands find only war-torn devastation, fire and brimstone sermons are accompanied by napalm and fragmentation bombs, pallbearers at military funerals dive for cover when they hear the three-volley salute, and the government is pouring money into 'Operation Enduring Democracy'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Calption's national animal is the Organism, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Some thing.

Calption is ranked 1,470^th in the world and 66^th in Lazarus for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 919.57 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.