The Principality of CANTYA TORTA is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, ritual sacrifices, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed population of 5.494 billion CANTYA TORTAians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 60.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient CANTYA TORTAian economy, worth 603 trillion Credits a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 109,799 Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

The elderly are killed softly with a song, the government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments, agriculture is heavily subsidized by the government, and the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. CANTYA TORTA's national animal is the Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

CANTYA TORTA is ranked 275,295^th in the world and 10,347^th in Balder for Highest Food Quality, scoring 6.41 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.