The Free Land of Cassandra is a massive, safe nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, state-planned economy, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-working, democratic population of 2.378 billion Cassandrans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 12.7%.

The very strong Cassandran economy, worth 137 trillion francs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Soda Sales. Average income is 57,655 francs, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 172,869 per year while the poor average 15,023, a ratio of 11.5 to 1.

Restaurateurs put a lot of effort into persuading customers to accept wafer-thin mints, homeless people dying of starvation are thought to be a necessary cost of preventing terrorism, Leader's family members carry literal get-out-of-jail-free cards, and scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied squirrel. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cassandra's national animal is the squirrel, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Cassandra is ranked 92,961^st in the world and 13^th in Serenity for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,660.15 on the Gilded Widget Scale.