The Federal Republic of Komarin is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by President Claudia Gallego with a fair hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, ubiquitous missile silos, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 17.233 billion Komarinians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Selkirk. The average income tax rate is 74.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Komarinian economy, worth a remarkable 2,440 trillion Komarin Zloties a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 141,607 Komarin Zloties, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Students asking about negative square roots are told life has no simple answers, multilingual concierges man empty inner city apartment blocks, nuclear submarines have been deployed to protect the nation's banana supply, and literature classes frequently go on field trips to rock concerts. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Komarin's national animal is the Roadrunner, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Starism.

Komarin is ranked 245,295^th in the world and 773^rd in Talonia for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 3,969.46 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.