The Free Land of Cananasa is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its strictly enforced bedtime, infamous sell-swords, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 679 million Cananasans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Familia de Cananasa. The average income tax rate is 65.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Cananasan economy, worth 65.3 trillion Melts a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 96,238 Melts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Selling your granddad's clothes requires an incredible amount of paperwork, vats of anabolic steroids are being dumped into the ocean to make Cananasan mussels the biggest in the West Pacific, most people suffer from some form of hearing loss, and the Counter-Terrorism Unit has been nicknamed "Big Bad Wolf" for its tendency towards urban demolition. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cananasa's national animal is the kingfishers, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Cananasa is ranked 62,180^th in the world and 553^rd in the West Pacific for Highest Average Incomes, with 96,238.4 Standard Monetary Units.