The United Forests of American-Cascadia is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Aleksy Niezgoda with an even hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 12.295 billion American-Cascadians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Douglas. The average income tax rate is 94.2%.

The frighteningly efficient American-Cascadian economy, worth a remarkable 1,840 trillion Arboras a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 149,674 Arboras, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scientists who publish a non-reproducible result are tarred and feathered, people with dyslexia are told to tough through it, keeping the lights on keeps the lights on for increasing amounts of American-Cascadians, and it is cheaper to die in the wilderness than to survive. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. American-Cascadia's national animal is the Caribou, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Silvism.

American-Cascadia is ranked 2,433^rd in the world and 71^st in The East Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 65.56 average smiles per day.