The Most Serene Republic of Caninecia is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Her Serenity Doge Namiko with an iron fist, and remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 1.298 billion Caninecians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Caninecia. The average income tax rate is 72.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Caninecian economy, worth 95.0 trillion lire a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 73,171 lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Posters on 'Caninecian Values' advise against being proud of Caninecia, most ambassadors from Caninecia retire only a few years after being appointed, building a phallus out of Minecraft blocks counts as indecent exposure, and Her Serenity Doge Namiko has just been declared ruler of Caninecia in an international press conference. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Caninecia's national animal is the Dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Caninecia is ranked 305,641^st in the world and 349^th in Christians for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -13.75 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.