The Federal Republic of High Candice is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, barren, inhospitable landscape, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, devout population of 738 million Candiceans 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Scandilux. The average income tax rate is 58.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Candicean economy, worth 65.5 trillion Donnaires 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 Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 88,749 Donnaires, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is common to see Maxémon Trainer listed on Candicean resumés, nuclear warheads are frequently launched into space as a warning to invading meteoroids, the noble worker digs deep for his communist ideals, and graffiti is done with immaculate multi-layer shading. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. High Candice's national animal is the Ape, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

High Candice is ranked 77,383^rd in the world and 3,441^st in Osiris for Highest Average Incomes, with 88,749.87 Standard Monetary Units.