The Mountains of Karagayan is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its national health service, frequent executions, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 740 million Karanites 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 enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Karagaya. The average income tax rate is 80.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Karanitian economy, worth 56.6 trillion tamasses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Basket Weaving, and Book Publishing. Average income is 76,422 tamasses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Arthritic citizens seem underrepresented at royal meet-and-greets, photographers have to apply for a license to photograph Leader, calling dibs is an unalienable right, and mining safety laws are often more expensive than what's being mined. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Karagayan's national animal is the Magpie, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Karagayan is ranked 16,386^th in the world and 39^th in Karma for Nicest Citizens, with 25.23 average smiles per day.