The Republic of Kalquen is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by General Wei Lanceson Jr with a fair hand, and notable for its national health service, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.247 billion Kalquenians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tanjin. The average income tax rate is 37.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Kalquenian economy, worth 68.1 trillion silver jins a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Trout Farming, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 54,617 silver jins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is illegal to have the wrong clock time showing on your microwave oven, Kalquen is notorious for its citizens' infidelity, the government is hoping that medical aid will speak louder than human rights abuses, and adverts proclaim it has to be healthy if the Mornay uses hand-grated Gallopavian Gruyère. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Kalquen's national animal is the sparrow, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Celestial Polytheism.

Kalquen is ranked 24,850^th in the world and 3^rd in The Celestial Empire for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 5,754.07 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.