The Confederacy of Confederacy of North America is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Jim Hacker with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 6.273 billion Confederacy of North Americans 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 tiny government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Philadelphia. The average income tax rate is 2.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Confederacy of North American economy, worth a remarkable 1,332 trillion American Confederacy Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 212,390 American Confederacy Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.1 times as much as the poorest.

Frequent broken zippers have resulted in safety pins making a fashion comeback, frightened witnesses and seriously ill jurors wear the same handcuffs as the defendant, pregnant hitchhikers with signs requesting rides to "competent care" are a common sight on Confederacy of North American roads, and cassocked priests and choirboys believe that what happens behind closed doors stays behind closed doors. Crime is totally unknown. Confederacy of North America's national animal is the American bison, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Confederacy of North America is ranked 47,949^th in the world and 1,642^nd in The North Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 3,596.86 on the Gilded Widget Scale.