The Commonwealth of Carolinaca is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, public floggings, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 1.956 billion Carolinacans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 42.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Carolinacan economy, worth 74.5 trillion coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 38,112 coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Streaming video is considered to be a myth by most citizens, the Carolinaca Enquirer offers weekly cash prizes for 'most blasphemous song, story, or cartoon', astronomers are flocking to Carolinaca to take advantage of its clear night skies, and families burn Leader's latest official photograph to keep warm. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Carolinaca's national animal is the honeybee, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Carolinaca is ranked 205,893^rd in the world and 1,304^th in the Plains of Perdition for Lowest Overall Tax Burden, scoring 35.29 on the Hayek Index.