The Revolutionary Republic of Colloms Golden Circle is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by President Elijius Andrewus Karnath with an even hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 3.451 billion Circleans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Magritic. The average income tax rate is 79.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Circlean economy, worth 680 trillion Circlean Novaurums a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 197,195 Circlean Novaurums, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Elementary school students are required to master Bach's Chaconne in D before graduation, self-sufficiency is built on seizing foreign assets, mathematicians are hated by children across the country, and flatulent people are left to die of cancer at the end of hospital waiting lists. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Colloms Golden Circle's national animal is the Circlean Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Revolutionary Atheism.

Colloms Golden Circle is ranked 79,013^th in the world and 300^th in Carcassonne for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2,729.24 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.