The Commonwealth of Kaishin is a huge, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 391 million Kaishinese are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The relatively small, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 17.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Kaishinese economy, worth 14.3 trillion riets a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 36,609 riets, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region, chickens frolic freely on swings and roundabouts in Kaishin City's playgrounds, children's TV shows are having a gay old time, and foreign aid is a seedy business. Crime is totally unknown. Kaishin's national animal is the crow, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

Kaishin is ranked 83,914^th in the world and 2,124^th in The North Pacific for Safest, scoring 90.56 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.