The Republic of Caik is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ritual sacrifices, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 933 million Caikians 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 medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 25.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Caikian economy, worth 41.5 trillion caiks a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 44,493 caiks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nationalistic national anthem inspires citizens to literally spit at foreigners, fancy dress parties are raided by military police for new recruits, whenever pilots have to bail out the government bails out their company, and Leader has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw. Crime, especially youth-related, is moderate. Caik's national animal is the caik, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Caik is ranked 270,711^th in the world and 9,840^th in Lazarus for Safest, scoring 7.25 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.