The Commonwealth Named Canida of Canidea is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by Prime Minister Colin MacCarrick with an even hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, state-planned economy, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 6.277 billion Canidans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hokkendo. The average income tax rate is 72.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Canidan economy, worth 152 trillion Tomis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 24,236 Tomis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Family isn't who you're born with but who you abandon in foreign countries, ice-filled coffins are ominously positioned in the corner of every hospital ward, it's best not to ask what goes into Hokkendo Fried Chicken's secret blend of herbs and spices, and nobody looks each other in the eye at neighborhood block parties any more. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Canidea's national animal is the White Inugami Labrador, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Shindōism.

Canidea is ranked 243,235^th in the world and 14^th in The Yomese Empire for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -3.35 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.