The Republic of Cal II is a colossal, genial nation, notable for its public floggings and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, hard-working population of 4.497 billion Cal IIians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 28.6%.

The Cal IIian economy, worth 200 trillion bitcoins a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 44,541 bitcoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Male friends are often accompanied by a female relative in order to prove their 'straightness', the jails are alive with the sound of birdsong, liberals and conservatives try to disqualify each other's candidates on the grounds that "their ideas would never work in the real world", and ancestry test results arrive bundled with patent applications. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cal II's national animal is the crocodile, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Cal II is ranked 56,955^th in the world and 18^th in Equestria for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 47.2 on the Kitten Softness Rating.