The Empire of Kaascar is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Joseph Solkov with an iron fist, and remarkable for its closed borders, triple-decker prams, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.271 billion Askians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Education, and Industry are also considered important. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Maural. The average income tax rate is 88.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Kaascarian economy, worth 369 trillion Talans a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 162,534 Talans, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The sound of wooden legs echo throughout Kaascar after the recent introduction of the Foot Tax, old dogs don't have to learn new tricks but they have to prove they haven't forgotten old ones, hairdressers are forced to use all the tricks of the trade after citizens became required to wear helmets at all times, and police conduct weekly raids looking for contraband cheeseburgers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kaascar's national animal is the Scorpion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Orthodox Christianity.

Kaascar is ranked 28,150^th in the world and 14^th in The Invaders for Smartest Citizens, with 50.74 quips per hour.