The Moon of Canelia is a mammoth, cultured nation, renowned for its anti-smoking policies, smutty television, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, devout population of 5.464 billion Canelians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Buenos Aires. The average income tax rate is 78.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Canelian economy, worth 454 trillion Pesetas a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 83,221 Pesetas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Faceless corporations are expected to assume parental responsibility over millions of teenagers, sex offenders find themselves cut off from the ability to repeat their crimes, engineers ask liberal arts majors "Do you want fries with that?", and small patches of desolate land across the world are part of Canelian sovereign territory. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Canelia's national animal is the Owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is No Official.

Canelia is ranked 56,982^nd in the world and 9^th in Pax Britannia for Highest Poor Incomes, with 50,466.5 Standard Monetary Units.