The Nation of Casscata is a massive, genial nation, ruled by The Trash Panda with an even hand, and remarkable for its public floggings, frequent executions, and zero percent divorce rate. The compassionate, devout population of 2.488 billion Casscatians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Scata. The average income tax rate is 87.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Casscatian economy, worth 344 trillion Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 138,620 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Casscatian diplomacy is by the book, frat-house partying has become the national pastime, authorities are looking for a stool pigeon to rat out who is stealing food from pigeon toilets, and physics lessons mostly involve talking about emotional management techniques. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Casscata's national animal is the Wombat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Faith.

Casscata is ranked 16,853^rd in the world and 711^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 308.19 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.