The Democratic Republic of Kagarin is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Laronev Brashen with an iron fist, and remarkable for its smutty television, pith helmet sales, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical population of 4.23 billion Kagarinians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nekaia. The average income tax rate is 71.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Kagarinian economy, worth 679 trillion rupees a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 160,530 rupees, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Disaster relief budgets are growing like wildfire, the image of Kagarin's future is just a picture from last century, racial supremacists have a burning desire to deal with immigrants, and even secular Kagarinians are shouting "Blessed are the cheesemakers!". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kagarin's national animal is the Greater Keelswan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is State Atheism.

Kagarin is ranked 227,372^nd in the world and 48^th in Conch Kingdom for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -1.79 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.