The Federal Republic of Kasmerstan is a very large, genial nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-working, democratic population of 193 million Kasmerstanians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Welfare, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 18.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Kasmerstanian economy, worth 10.4 trillion Kasmern dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Gambling, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 53,770 Kasmern dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Pristine wilderness has been trashed in the quest for cheaper oil, nudity is frowned upon, the nation's Medal of Honour can be found as a free toy in breakfast cereal, and rude retail employees are now even ruder homeless panhandlers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Kasmerstan's national animal is the Steppenwolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kasmerstan is ranked 218,362^nd in the world and 4,238^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.