The Republic of Caqada is a very large, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, avowedly heterosexual populace, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 128 million Caqadans 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 relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 18.8%.

The very strong Caqadan economy, worth 10.1 trillion canadian dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Furniture Restoration, and Information Technology. Average income is 78,586 canadian dollars, with the richest citizens earning 6.3 times as much as the poorest.

Savvy nightclub-goers know that structurally unsound venues sell the cheapest drinks, violently opinionated speakers can be heard preaching their hateful views on every street corner, euthanasia is illegal, and the nationalistic national anthem inspires citizens to literally spit at foreigners. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Caqada's national animal is the beaver, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Caqada is ranked 34,976^th in the world and 788^th in The North Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 4,885.55 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.