The Dictatorship of Kashchey is a massive, orderly nation, notable for its avant-garde cinema, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical population of 1.57 billion Kashcheyians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Law & Order, although Administration, Education, and Healthcare are also considered important. The average income tax rate is 53.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Kashcheyian economy, worth 40.0 trillion bodies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Automobile Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 25,509 bodies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Families consisting of more than three people are forced to split up, thousands of picky mothers-in-law have been recruited to serve as even pickier cookery instructors, banning party poppers has been a real party pooper, and immigrants who don't like the taste of Kashcheyian Turnip Chips are immediately deported. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kashchey's national animal is the Phidia, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Kashchey is ranked 309,529^th in the world and 51^st in Ursus for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -7.75 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.