The Empire of Romanized Carthage is a titanic, socially progressive nation, notable for its compulsory military service, complete absence of social welfare, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 13.779 billion Romanized Carthageans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, pro-business government, or what there is of one, is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, with Law & Order also on the agenda, while International Aid and Spirituality receive no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.2%.

The strong Romanized Carthagean economy, worth 790 trillion Shekels a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 57,348 Shekels, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 341,946 per year while the poor average 4,393, a ratio of 77.8 to 1.

Every week is blindness awareness week, Eau de Trashcan has become a wildly popular perfume, all major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras, and the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Romanized Carthage's national animal is the Elephant, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Romanized Carthage is ranked 137,071^st in the world and 9^th in Coldonia for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 2,208.4 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.