The Republic of Cancolastan is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Frank Burk with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 8.033 billion Cancolastanis are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Perth. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 52.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Cancolastani economy, worth a remarkable 1,359 trillion Empire Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Retail. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 169,295 Empire Dollars, with the richest citizens earning 5.7 times as much as the poorest.

Most of the nation's wealthy aristocrats are dentists, teenage male videogamers often suffer repetitive strain wrist injuries, overweight people receive reparations checks from fast-food chains, and adverts proclaim it has to be healthy if the Mornay uses hand-grated Gallopavian Gruyère. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cancolastan's national animal is the Wedgetail, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Cancolastan is ranked 22,743^rd in the world and 2^nd in Anglospheric Empire for Lowest Crime Rates, with 87.57 law-abiding acts per hour.