The Most Serene Republic of Kaonashi is a very large, safe nation, notable for its compulsory vegetarianism, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 204 million Kaonashians 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 large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 63.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Kaonashian economy, worth 8.79 trillion Lead to Golds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 43,110 Lead to Golds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government airlifts sacrificial lambs, bridge salesmen line up for blocks to make their cases at Leader's office, Leader is called 'Patches' at international summits, and voting is voluntary. Crime is totally unknown. Kaonashi's national animal is the Pig, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kaonashi is ranked 15,448^th in the world and 1^st in The Trumpenreich for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 57.31 on the Kitten Softness Rating.