The Commonwealth of Kanoshu is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 340 million Kanoshuans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of El'Kassar. The average income tax rate is 77.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Kanoshuan economy, worth 18.7 trillion DSA Labour Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 55,029 DSA Labour Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

In court almost every witness is a hostile witness, poaching has been on the rise after animals from the nation's zoos were released into the wild, beaches are empty as the shark population multiplies exponentially, and there are six more weeks of winter if a northerner sees his shadow. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kanoshu's national animal is the Panlong, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kanoshu is ranked 22,863^rd in the world and 106^th in Democratic Socialist Assembly for Most Popular Tourist Destinations, with 1,164.1 tourists per hour.