The Empire of Karakars is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Wallace Ruski with an iron fist, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, irreverence towards religion, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 12.27 billion Karakarsians 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, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ar Kitik. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 27.1%.

The very strong Karakarsian economy, worth 748 trillion whips a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Cheese Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is 61,010 whips, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 292,141 per year while the poor average 7,458, a ratio of 39.2 to 1.

Vacationing Karakarsians expect to be treated as royalty, Karakarsians seem to be catching more chills, Brancaland has gifted over nine thousand putrid moose carcasses to Karakars as a reminder of their "special relationship", and there is something rotten in the state of Karakars. Crime is a problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Karakars's national animal is the seal.

Karakars is ranked 117,171^st in the world and 5^th in The Eighth Closet for Most Developed, scoring 58.51 on the Human Development Index.