The Rich playground and poor hel of Cawn is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Big rich man with an iron fist, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, ubiquitous missile silos, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.029 billion Rij are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rich city. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Richmë economy, worth 173 trillion marks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 168,789 marks, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,140,604 per year while the poor average 9,237, a ratio of 123 to 1.

The government regrets to say that it is forced to make cuts to citizens, all streets are privately owned toll roads, students who refuse to pray are expelled from school, and the government conducts negotiations with drawings after firing multilinguals for treason. Crime is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Cawn's national animal is the Mmmmm, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Cawn is ranked 68,671^st in the world and 10^th in Timoria for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 140 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.