The Republic of Calabo is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Sir Josiah William Walker-Peart with an even hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, anti-smoking policies, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, devout population of 2.342 billion Calaboans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Calabotopia. The average income tax rate is 73.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Calaboan economy, worth 203 trillion Fazdaxes a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 87,012 Fazdaxes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Business owners return from long vacations to find their factories have been turned into homeless shelters, Calabo has one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world, corporations claim the third ounce of any metal traded in a wicker-cone on the Sunday of a full moon as a charitable expense, and the skeletons of lost tourists litter the ground of the Great Calaboan Desert. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Calabo's national animal is the Black Panther, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

Calabo is ranked 30,439^th in the world and 1,116^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 217.68 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.