The Republic of Cassert is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its compulsory military service, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 15.668 billion Cassertians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 24.5%.

The thriving Cassertian economy, worth a remarkable 1,371 trillion marks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 87,538 marks, with the richest citizens earning 9.2 times as much as the poorest.

Students who refuse to pray are expelled from school, five-year-olds chanting "Little Miss Muffet" are accused of bullying arachnophobes, a bill to outlaw math homework has been submitted, and doctors prescribe medicines but they rarely dispense hope or compassion. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cassert's national animal is the bison, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cassert is ranked 158,108^th in the world and 667^th in Artificial Solar System for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 826.48 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.