The United States of Kappacon is a titanic, cultured nation, renowned for its smutty television, daily referendums, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 15.193 billion Kappaconians 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 Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mirinae. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Kappaconian economy, worth a remarkable 4,984 trillion Won a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 328,046 Won, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Military strategists are questioning the wisdom of subsidizing the economies of sworn enemies, the government believes there is no problem that raising taxes won't fix, the government supplies ragtag bands of resistance fighters in exchange for vague promises of future payment, and the government is flooded with compensation requests. 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 714^th in the world and 22^nd in The North Pacific for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 44,235.6 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.