The Commonwealth of Cassiopeus is a large, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its pith helmet sales, public floggings, and otherworldly petting zoo. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 90 million Cassiopeians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 15.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Cassiopeian economy, worth 9.48 trillion Cass Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 105,277 Cass Dollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 411,075 per year while the poor average 18,390, a ratio of 22.4 to 1.

Corporations donate huge sums of money to favored politicians, computer users are buried daily in thousands of unsolicited emails, birth rates have hit an all-time low, and lawyers turn down litigation cases and corporate work in order to focus on lucrative public defence work. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Cassiopeus's national animal is the Steller's Sea Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Cassiopeus is ranked 268,641^st in the world and 30^th in ScuffiaProjectia for Most Beautiful Environments, with 79.42 pounds of wildlife per square mile.