The Mysterious Airship of King Carl is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Leader with an iron fist, and remarkable for its strictly enforced bedtime, smutty television, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 44.21 billion King Carlians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The tiny, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Industry, and Administration are also considered important, while Environment and Social Policy aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of King Carl City. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient King Carlian economy, worth an astonishing 26,814 trillion lats a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, Retail, and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is a breathtaking 606,514 lats, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,084,375 per year while the poor average 129,416, a ratio of 16.1 to 1.

It's widely agreed that to tennis players love means nothing, billions of lats are being blown on orbital weapons development, accusations of corruption stick when the accused are long-gone, and the climate agreement has actually increased the volume of hot air in the atmosphere. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. King Carl's national animal is the great leopard, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is a major religion.

King Carl is ranked 275,620^th in the world and 1^st in Hattrick for Most Primitive, scoring -287.09 on the Scary Big Number Scale.