The Principality of Kartlis is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Prince Teimuraz III with an even hand, and notable for its punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, devout population of 11.54 billion Kartlians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mtskheta. The average income tax rate is 58.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Kartlian economy, worth 273 trillion laris a year, is quite specialized and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Information Technology. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 23,705 laris, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Students who refuse to pray are expelled from school, teenage TV characters are played by thirty-year-olds by the end of the second season, making up random numbers to name new asteroids is the bulk of astronomers' work, and people with hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia faint upon diagnosis. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kartlis's national animal is the blue wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Georgian Orthodoxy.

Kartlis is ranked 249,671^st in the world and 30^th in Western Atlantic for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -3.9 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.