The United Socialist States of Carenios is a large, socially progressive nation, notable for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate population of 199 million Careniosians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 75.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Careniosian economy, worth 8.39 trillion glints a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Furniture Restoration, and Retail. Average income is 42,141 glints, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There have been sightings of people walking around dressed in nothing but leopard-skin g-strings for 'religious reasons', strict term limits have been applied to all elected offices, schoolchildren on field trips are asked what torture means to them, and the government supplies ragtag bands of resistance fighters in exchange for vague promises of future payment. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Carenios's national animal is the rhino, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Carenios is ranked 291,226^th in the world and 524^th in Starlight for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -7.21 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.