The Kingdom of Kalix is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, smutty television, and enforced nudity. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 43.829 billion Kalixians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Göteborg. The income tax rate is 100%.

The enormous but underdeveloped Kalixian economy, worth a remarkable 5,215 trillion kronors a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 119,004 kronors, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hordes of tourists are ruining the environment, cutting-edge missile systems are being retrofitted to twin-prop air force biplanes, farmers have taken to hunting billionaires who encroach on their land, and social networking sites have discussion groups devoted to planning terrorist attacks. Crime is totally unknown. Kalix's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kalix is ranked 70,372^nd in the world and 14^th in The Maritimes for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 2,710.43 on the Gilded Widget Scale.