The Empire of Cadonio is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 2.754 billion Cadonioans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nueva Cardenas. The average income tax rate is 91.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Cadonioan economy, worth 385 trillion Stag Dollars a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 139,962 Stag Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Lobbyists are trying to convince government to recategorize most natural disasters as "non-critical naturogenic inconveniences", high school bands practice by moonlight, C-SPAN viewership drops as MPs act their age, and the main interest rates change daily based on the latest news story. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cadonio's national animal is the Honey Badger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Cadonioism.

Cadonio is ranked 6,784^th in the world and 357^th in The North Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 41.2 average smiles per day.