The Republic of New Cadaria is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by President Rusk with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 3.285 billion Cadarians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Savona. The average income tax rate is 74.0%.

The frighteningly efficient New Cadarian economy, worth 647 trillion Cadarian Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Tourism. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 197,176 Cadarian Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Once-vitriolic celebrity chefs are now known for giving encouraging hugs to aspiring cooks, citizens are deployed to barren deserts to protect small territorial claims, tumbleweed drifts through the nation's shopping centres during the weekends, and the only thing that can pin down a "superhero" is red tape. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Cadaria's national animal is the Cadarian Rattlesnake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Cadaria is ranked 32,506^th in the world and 31^st in The Hole To Hide In for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 4,228.78 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.