The People's Republic of Cagliana is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Gila the terrible with an even hand, and remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, public floggings, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 2.303 billion Caglianans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cagliana. The average income tax rate is 77.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Caglianan economy, worth 291 trillion Totanoes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 126,587 Totanoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

90% of active duty CAF personnel have been laid off and replaced by robot kill-drones, escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky, the new 'Things We Stole From Other Countries' exhibition at the National Museum of Antiquities is a hit, and it is a crime to offend someone's religious beliefs. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cagliana's national animal is the Gatto selvatico, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Cagliana is ranked 15,281^st in the world and 397^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 9,167.71 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.