The Nation of Casscata is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by The Trash Panda with an even hand, and remarkable for its national health service, zero percent divorce rate, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, devout population of 2.413 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, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Scata. The average income tax rate is 84.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Casscatian economy, worth 340 trillion Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 141,144 Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

The Trash Panda has been seen stealthily slicing fifths off bread loaves, mountain rescue missions can end with more people lost than found, urban entrepreneurs are busy introducing cockroaches into restaurant kitchens, and escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky. 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 78,925^th in the world and 1,761^st in The North Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 3,111.01 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.