The Empire of Caescadia is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Emperor Sam Frostborn with an even hand, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, anti-smoking policies, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate population of 1.848 billion Caescadians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Granbergstad. The average income tax rate is 70.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Caescadian economy, worth 243 trillion Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 131,962 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There's an aura of pseudoscience around academia, the government recently relinquished its monopoly on the mail service, more money is spent on policing the welfare system for abuse than on the welfare system itself, and the slowest students feel vaguely targeted by their Mendelian Inheritance coursework. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Caescadia's national animal is the Spirit Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Caescadia is ranked 28,450^th in the world and 398^th in Europe for Most Efficient Economies, scoring 97.31 on the Krugman-Greenspan Business Outlook Index.