The Nation of Casscata is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Trash Panda with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The compassionate, devout population of 2.357 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, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Scata. The average income tax rate is 83.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Casscatian economy, worth 333 trillion Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 141,344 Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Flatulent people are left to die of cancer at the end of hospital waiting lists, airship use has soared while property values beneath their routes have plummeted, families waiting for delayed pipe installations hope daily for rain, and school lessons are constantly interrupted by 'teacher needs a break' time. 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 14,022^nd in the world and 602^nd in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 105 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.