The United States of Kappacon is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Oh Dae-su with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 10.081 billion Koreans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hanyang. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Korean economy, worth a remarkable 2,872 trillion Won a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 284,954 Won, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scientific journals publish third-graders' school essays, Scoutmasters debate whether luxury log cabins defeat the purpose of camping, any citizen who cries is immediately assigned a psychiatrist, and people reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kappacon's national animal is the Siberian Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

Kappacon is ranked 1,194^th in the world and 46^th in The North Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 17,966.67 on the Gilded Widget Scale.