The Serenissima of Red Cantabria is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its national health service, pith helmet sales, and vat-grown people. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 555 million Cantabrians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lacombais-Santander. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 46.0%.

The powerhouse Cantabrian economy, worth 64.6 trillion Cantabria cosos a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Information Technology. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 116,473 Cantabria cosos, with the richest citizens earning 8.5 times as much as the poorest.

The wreckages of bombed planes that litter Red Cantabria are highly popular tourist destinations, body doubles and armed bodyguards escort witnesses to and from courtrooms, Eau de Trashcan has become a wildly popular perfume, and citizens recently voted in favour of declaring bubblewrap an 'abomination of nature'. Crime is relatively low. Red Cantabria's national animal is the elephant, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Red Cantabria is ranked 183,133^rd in the world and 1,551^st in the West Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 289.75 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.