The United States of Kappacon is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Oh Dae-su with a fair hand, and notable for its national health service, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 6.033 billion Koreans 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 enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hanyang. The average income tax rate is 99.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Korean economy, worth a remarkable 1,258 trillion Won a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 208,558 Won, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A favorite "life hack" for gap year backpackers is to pretend to be homeless for government handouts, government crews work tirelessly to retake the suburbs from organized packs of raccoons, witnesses have to run a gauntlet of mob enforcers to testify at trials, and Hanyang has become the number one destination for urban exploration in The North Pacific. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kappacon's national animal is the Siberian Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

Kappacon is ranked 667^th in the world and 40^th in The North Pacific for Healthiest Citizens, with 39.03 bananas ingested per day.