The Collectivist Oligarchy of Cacnesia is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by People's Popular Revolutionary Committee with an iron fist, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, anti-smoking policies, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, humorless population of 9.186 billion Cacnesians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Airstrip One. The average income tax rate is 99.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Cacnesian economy, worth a remarkable 3,297 trillion Ingsoc Dollars 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 dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 358,961 Ingsoc Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Over a third of the seats in sports stadiums have been removed to make room for female-only commodes, the nation leads The East Pacific in per capita stalking, conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, and funeral directors are frequently looking at their watches during funerals. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cacnesia's national animal is the LumpenTroll, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Cacnesia is ranked 747^th in the world and 14^th in The East Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 180.43 law-abiding acts per hour.