The United Socialist States of Kashlakia is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Premiere Forun Kushkov with an even hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, smutty television, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate population of 3.905 billion Kashlakians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kavak. The average income tax rate is 95.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Kashlakian economy, worth 483 trillion Kashlakian Dragons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 123,859 Kashlakian Dragons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Criminals rejoice in the streets as the entire police force is sent away on a training retreat, the government frequently panders to parents with boutique tax credits, escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky, and piracy is the nation's most popular pastime. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kashlakia's national animal is the Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is None.

Kashlakia is ranked 30,271^st in the world and 317^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 5,645.55 on the Gilded Widget Scale.