The Theocracy of Calaith is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Ayatollah Herakles Staic with an iron fist, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, public floggings, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 24.114 billion Calaithians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ysula. The average income tax rate is 92.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Calaithian economy, worth a remarkable 2,792 trillion Chevs a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 115,792 Chevs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Starry-eyed convention goers have their heads in the clouds, the national arsenal is full of sound and fury signifying nothing, people are now buried six inches under, and the government is on the side of working people (like CEOs, bankers and billionaires). Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Calaith's national animal is the boar, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Calaith is ranked 314,003^rd in the world and 13^th in Lair of the Dragon for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -61.71 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.