The Kharlean Confederacy of The Divine Paw is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, compulsory military service, and devotion to social welfare. The cynical population of 3.311 billion Kharleans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Welfare, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 75.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Divine Pawian economy, worth 53.8 trillion gold marks 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 Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Soda Sales. Average income is 16,260 gold marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Divine Paw's national animal is the owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

The Divine Paw is ranked 216,207^th in the world and 19^th in Foxtopia for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 46.9 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.