The Province of The-Cape is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its public floggings, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 2.405 billion The-Capeans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 37.2%.

The all-consuming The-Capean economy, worth 224 trillion Provincial Talers 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 large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, 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 93,242 Provincial Talers, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 323,208 per year while the poor average 19,638, a ratio of 16.5 to 1.

Military parades quietly tiptoe their way through the streets, the people consider response to rudeness to be an acceptable casus belli, many politicians are serving jail time for minor drug offenses, and third world countries are rich in "I Love The-Cape City" t-shirts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The-Cape's national animal is the Local Labrador, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

The-Cape is ranked 114,066^th in the world and 25^th in Urcea for Lowest Crime Rates, with 65.97 law-abiding acts per hour.