The Commonwealth of Cascaderia is a large, genial nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 108 million Cascaderians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 70.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Cascaderian economy, worth 2.90 trillion Cedars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Pizza Delivery, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 26,836 Cedars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock", gambling is outlawed, artists are pillars of society, and in musicals everybody's a little bit racist. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cascaderia's national animal is the Beaver, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Cascaderia is ranked 258,730^th in the world and 2,168^th in the West Pacific for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -4.38 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.