The Silk Roadster of Kalmukia is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its fear of technology, disturbing lack of elderly people, and compulsory vegetarianism. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 24.15 billion Kalmukians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, moralistic morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 85.1%.

The Kalmukiano economy, worth 963 trillion Florins a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is 39,880 Florins, with the richest citizens earning 5.8 times as much as the poorest.

Intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works, sanitary products are sold in brown paper at hairdressers' salons, the nation's orphanages and maternity wards have been nicknamed 'the Killbot Factories', and government ministers claim to ride dragons to work. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kalmukia's national animal is the Ermin, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Life and Death.

Kalmukia is ranked 144,179^th in the world and 9^th in Vladivostok for Most Extreme, scoring 14.78 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.