The Pony Principality of Princess Cadance is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Princess Cadance with a fair hand, and renowned for its national health service, anti-smoking policies, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 11.524 billion Cadenzans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Crystal City. The average income tax rate is 73.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Cadenzan economy, worth 725 trillion Bits a year, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 62,937 Bits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

New homeowners go furniture hunting with crowbars, the nation is going green, suburban backyards are seized by the government and turned into national parks, and the latest political memes depict Princess Cadance as an overly-choreographed robot. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Princess Cadance's national animal is the Alicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Harmonism.

Princess Cadance is ranked 212,425^th in the world and 9^th in Pony Realms for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6.84 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.