The Republic of Cassert is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, enslaved workforce, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 15.621 billion Cassertians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 24.5%.

The thriving Cassertian economy, worth a remarkable 1,367 trillion marks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 87,538 marks, with the richest citizens earning 9.2 times as much as the poorest.

Students who refuse to pray are expelled from school, five-year-olds chanting "Little Miss Muffet" are accused of bullying arachnophobes, a bill to outlaw math homework has been submitted, and doctors prescribe medicines but they rarely dispense hope or compassion. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cassert's national animal is the bison, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cassert is ranked 94,766^th in the world and 506^th in Artificial Solar System for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 971.29 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.