The City-State of Canteras is a mammoth, efficient nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, smutty television, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 9.82 billion Humans enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of CANTERAS. The average income tax rate is 49.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Human economy, worth a remarkable 1,543 trillion sands a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 157,134 sands, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

Card players are calling the government's bluff on anti-gambling legislation, social media sites prompt users to send birthday greetings to unresponsive nonagenarians, world leaders often feel uncomfortable when Leader tries to recruit them into selling cosmetics, and students memorise knock-knock jokes for their mandatory twice-a-term Comedy Examinations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Canteras's national animal is the Guenhwyvar, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Canteras is ranked 287,477^th in the world and 15,463^rd in Osiris for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -6.69 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.