The Candle in the WA office of Kainin is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Rainin with an even hand, and remarkable for its national health service, daily referendums, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 2.876 billion Kaininians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of World Assembly Offices. The average income tax rate is 86.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Kaininian economy, worth 516 trillion Candle Waxes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 179,416 Candle Waxes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Rainin is strangely popular with male politicians' wives, AI citizens are criticized for being robotic, ghost regiments exist only on paper, and the line of royal succession just experienced a hardware interrupt. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Kainin's national animal is the Christmas Bat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Athyism.

Kainin is ranked 7,707^th in the world and 342^nd in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 136 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.