The Peninsula of Calabria is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Nicandro Casanova with an even hand, and notable for its compulsory military service and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 25.423 billion Calabrians are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The relatively small, moralistic, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Catanzaro. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 14.3%.

The very strong Calabrian economy, worth a remarkable 1,263 trillion lire a year, is quite specialized and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 49,714 lire, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 151,867 per year while the poor average 12,614, a ratio of 12.0 to 1.

Citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes, Calabria has designated Catanzaro as its capital city, Nicandro Casanova has just been declared ruler of Calabria in an international press conference, and Roman Catholicism has been named as Calabria's national religion. Crime is a problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Calabria's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Calabria is ranked 263,413^th in the world and 15^th in Italian Regions for Nudest, with 56.25 cheeks per square mile.