The Socialist Republic of Kavanos is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by Daihai with an even hand, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, pith helmet sales, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 13.978 billion Kavaneses are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kalit City. The average income tax rate is 84.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Kavanese economy, worth a remarkable 2,908 trillion KVN Credits a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 208,079 KVN Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Environmentalists are staging large protests in front of reopened nuclear power plants, every week is blindness awareness week, keeping the lights on keeps the lights on for increasing amounts of Kavaneses, and bridge salesmen line up for blocks to make their cases at Daihai's office. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Kavanos's national animal is the firefox, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Confucianism.

Kavanos is ranked 258,956^th in the world and 3,222^nd in The East Pacific for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -3.79 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.