The Federation of Kannap is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Daniel Sanders-Wood with an even hand, and notable for its smutty television, triple-decker prams, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 31.292 billion Kannapians 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Environment, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Anderson. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Kannapian economy, worth a remarkable 5,980 trillion kanmarks a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, extremely specialized black market in Soda Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 191,123 kanmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Education and welfare spending are on the rise, major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day, old folks reminisce about the last time someone was acquitted of a crime, and fans doing the wave routinely disrupt the finals of Go tournaments. Crime is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Kannap's national animal is the red panda, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is the Church of Kannap.

Kannap is ranked 286,414^th in the world and 214^th in Forest for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -8.58 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.