The United Confederacy of The Caspian States is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Emperor Mikayil VIII with an even hand, and remarkable for its compulsory vegetarianism, national health service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.531 billion Caspians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Wathan. The average income tax rate is 83.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Caspian economy, worth 132 trillion ushahs a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 86,524 ushahs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Earthquake sirens are a leading cause of hearing loss, the nightly news reports prosaically on the government blindly throwing money at despotic kidnappers, toilet paper is considered a non-essential item in the embargo against Brasilistan, and halberds are common 18th birthday presents. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Caspian States's national animal is the boar, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Urism.

The Caspian States is ranked 14,034^th in the world and 128^th in Europeia for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 54.3 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.