The Grand Duchy of Kaltos is a very large, orderly nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, restrictive gun laws, and suspicion of poets. The hard-working, cynical population of 168 million Kaltosians 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 medium-sized, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Welfare, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 37.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Kaltosian economy, worth 8.79 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 52,342 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Drill sergeants yell in the ears of bespectacled nerds in cybermilitary "reboot camps", grocery store cereal aisles resemble a Piet Mondrian work, a stitch in time could see you serving nine, and the nation operates a "finders-keepers" policy with other nations' citizens. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kaltos's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kaltos is ranked 74,599^th in the world and 1^st in TheNewPersianEmpire for Most Patriotic, with 18.8 flags saluted per person per day.