The Community of Casterbrious is a large, genial nation, renowned for its compulsory vegetarianism, national health service, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 110 million Casterbrions are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 77.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Casterbrion economy, worth 2.28 trillion Pandaks a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 20,749 Pandaks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Casterbrion Babysitters Club has proven to be a huge relief to stressed-out parents across the nation, kids are told they can be whoever they want to be when they grow up, drug deals return to the streets as legions of undercover officers stalk the dark web, and unpopular cops are fired at a moment's notice by the citizens they police. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Casterbrious's national animal is the Tafelshrew, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Casterbrious is ranked 245,642^nd in the world and 214^th in Refugia for Highest Poor Incomes, with 16,046.56 Standard Monetary Units.