The People's Republic of Casiopeia is a small, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 23 million Casiopeians 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 69.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The weak Casiopeian economy, worth 669 billion paizzes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Furniture Restoration, and Tourism. Average income is 29,092 paizzes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Starving citizens are offered nuclear pasta, a new "thought police" branch is being developed, citizens cannot change their light bulbs without approval from an international committee, and Leader reduces citizens' commute times by giving away their homes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Casiopeia's national animal is the dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Casiopeia is ranked 157,818^th in the world and 627^th in Carcassonne for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 553.53 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.