The Serene Commonwealth of Cascadia Commune is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Tsar Nicholas III with an even hand, and renowned for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 1.659 billion Cascadians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, although Administration, Healthcare, and Defense are also considered important, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vancouver. The average income tax rate is 65.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Cascadian economy, worth 55.1 trillion Cascadian Rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery. Average income is 33,240 Cascadian Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Everyone wants to be on the guest list for diplomatic parties, online weather reports are predicting five years of glorious sunshine for Cascadia Commune, anti-government political posters adorn every building like wallpaper, and military equipment stores have a tendency to go up in flames. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cascadia Commune's national animal is the Brown Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Eastern Orthodox.

Cascadia Commune is ranked 71,338^th in the world and 131^st in The Union of Democratic States for Lowest Crime Rates, with 69.88 law-abiding acts per hour.