The Federal Republic of Kantamaria is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Chief Executive Joe with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, public floggings, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 1.195 billion Kantamarians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aurellapest. The average income tax rate is 66.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Kantamarian economy, worth 90.5 trillion Kantamarian Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 75,747 Kantamarian Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Parole board directors light up a joint before telling hash-brownie baking grannies that they have to stay behind bars, explicit slash fiction is repackaged for kindergarten kids as stories about friends cuddling friends, major cities are suffering under water rationing, and Phil Swiftanism has been named as Kantamaria's national religion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kantamaria's national animal is the Mockingbird, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Phil Swiftanism.

Kantamaria is ranked 145,796^th in the world and 6,772^nd in the South Pacific for Largest Soda Pop Sector, scoring 441.11 on the Addison-Fukk Productivity Rating.