The Fourth Empire of Salish-Cascadia is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by HIM Lewis III Andromeda with an even hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, compulsory military service, and unlimited-speed roads. The compassionate, humorless population of 25.729 billion Cascadians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Victoria. The average income tax rate is 47.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Cascadian economy, worth a remarkable 1,726 trillion Salish Imperials a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 67,098 Salish Imperials, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations, the government is reining in public spending, dozens of additional foreign policy specialists have been sent to the country's WA Mission, and it is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Salish-Cascadia's national animal is the Kraken, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Salish-Cascadia is ranked 278,469^th in the world and 5,840^th in The North Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -314.15 on the Scary Big Number Scale.