The Sovereignty of Cartiga is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by General Morden with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, ubiquitous missile silos, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 29.792 billion Cartigans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt government prioritizes Defense, although Education, Administration, and Environment are also considered important, while Social Policy and International Aid receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ronbertburg. The average income tax rate is 90.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Cartigan economy, worth a remarkable 9,855 trillion unicreds a year, is highly specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 330,794 unicreds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Temporarily-sober tourists forlornly watch pot-smoking dropouts hanging out in coffeeshops, death is nobody's business, alcoholics are lauded as national benefactors within the halls of the Ministry of Finance, and stocks go up when the internet says so. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cartiga's national animal is the Hairbuster Riberts, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Gottgläubigkeit.

Cartiga is ranked 9,314^th in the world and 39^th in Fifth Empire for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 90.69 Effective Tax Rate.