The Commonwealth of Al-Karkadan is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Hafith with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, ubiquitous missile silos, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 22.987 billion Karkadanis are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ar-Raqqa. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 69.8%.

The all-consuming Karkadani economy, worth a remarkable 2,456 trillion Khutus a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 106,883 Khutus, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 395,786 per year while the poor average 20,325, a ratio of 19.5 to 1.

Discarded pennies litter the streets, in musicals everybody's a little bit racist, the arms industry is strictly regulated, and earthquake sirens are a leading cause of hearing loss. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Al-Karkadan's national animal is the unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Islam.

Al-Karkadan is ranked 88,647^th in the world and 23^rd in The TWR and NE Puppet Depot for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 12,796.48 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.