The Democratic Federation of Kaldu is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 539 million Kashdim 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 Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Babilim. The average income tax rate is 88.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Kashdu economy, worth 56.5 trillion kaspus 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an impressive 104,910 kaspus, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes, obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals, it is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws, and country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kaldu's national animal is the cheetah, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kaldu is ranked 49,536^th in the world and 397^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 5,051.89 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.