The Queendom of Karnstein is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Carmilla with an iron fist, and remarkable for its smutty television, ritual sacrifices, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 22.011 billion Karnsteinians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Le Fanu City. The average income tax rate is 89.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Karnsteinian economy, worth a remarkable 3,421 trillion pounds a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Trout Farming. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 155,431 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Karnstein isn't what it used to be, life expectancies inside correctional facilities vastly exceed the national average, parents seeking custody have to write a five-thousand word analysis of their child's imaginary friend, and funeral directors are frequently looking at their watches during funerals. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Karnstein's national animal is the Panther, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Church of Carmilla.

Karnstein is ranked 285,679^th in the world and 4,012^th in the Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -461.38 on the Scary Big Number Scale.