The Empire of Canturk is a huge, safe nation, notable for its restrictive gun laws, devotion to social welfare, and spontaneously combusting cars. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 876 million Canturkians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The medium-sized, corrupt, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 59.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Canturkian economy, worth 104 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 119,389 dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,023,994 per year while the poor average 2,375, a ratio of 431 to 1.

The nation's prisons are touted as the best weight loss programs money can't buy, it is still not known if the commander in chief outranks the supreme commander, billions of dollars are being blown on orbital weapons development, and the government is attempting to revitalize a gutted private sector. Crime is totally unknown. Canturk's national animal is the cow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Canturk is ranked 292,776^th in the world and 1,395^th in Europe for Most Beautiful Environments, with 5.65 pounds of wildlife per square mile.