The Reborn States of Karnea is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by President Masacon with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service, daily referendums, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.659 billion Karneans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Karnopolisian. The average income tax rate is 96.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Karnean economy, worth a remarkable 1,022 trillion Karns a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 180,716 Karns, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate, welfare recipients are milking the government for all they've got, paper and ink publications are subsidised by the government to keep them in the black, and 3D printed organs are a breath of new life for the sick and elderly. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Karnea's national animal is the Eurasian Lynx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is No National Religion.

Karnea is ranked 5,755^th in the world and 100^th in Europe for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 529.52 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.