The Republic of Caqada is a large, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, avowedly heterosexual populace, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 74 million Caqadans 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 relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 19.9%.

The very strong Caqadan economy, worth 5.52 trillion canadian dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Furniture Restoration, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 74,625 canadian dollars, with the richest citizens earning 6.4 times as much as the poorest.

The number of students attending university has reached a record high, tampons are used as cheap fishing bobbers, equality looks curiously unequal, and it's always rabbit season. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Caqada's national animal is the beaver, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Caqada is ranked 254,746^th in the world and 5,829^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 62 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.