The Department of Cauca is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Temistocles Ortega Narváez with an even hand, and notable for its compulsory military service and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 23.648 billion Caucans are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The medium-sized, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Popayán. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 21.7%.

The very strong Caucan economy, worth 950 trillion pesos a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 40,177 pesos, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 122,733 per year while the poor average 10,194, a ratio of 12.0 to 1.

Citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes, Cauca has designated Popayán as its capital city, Temistocles Ortega Narváez has just been declared ruler of Cauca in an international press conference, and Roman Catholicism has been named as Cauca's national religion. Crime is a problem. Cauca's national animal is the condor, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Cauca is ranked 253,277^th in the world and 69^th in Department Store for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring zero on the Gilded Widget Scale.