The United Socialist States of Qadiworka is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 227 million Qadiworkans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 75.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Qadiworkan economy, worth 5.40 trillion Workis 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 Beef-Based Agriculture, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. Average income is 23,804 Workis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Many friends and relatives of Leader have been given ambassador jobs in tropical island nations, Coco the Clown has been elected to the nation's parliament, neighboring nations are tired of Qadiworka's big fish stories, and a policy of plausible deniability helps protect the government from athletic doping scandals. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Qadiworka's national animal is the Elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Qadiworka is ranked 132,889^th in the world and 2,535^th in the South Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 771.15 on the Gilded Widget Scale.