The Republic of Cannes-1 is a titanic, orderly nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, parental licensing program, and public floggings. The cynical population of 10.426 billion Cannes-1ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 39.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Cannes-1ian economy, worth 407 trillion deniers a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Retail, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 39,039 deniers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Officials pull all-nighters to check immigrants for potential links to terrorists, all government communication requires the imprimatur of the Truth Police, customs turn away those considered to have an unfavourable ethnicity, and doctors prescribe medicines produced by the last pharmaceutical company to give them a free pen. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cannes-1's national animal is the turtle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Cannes-1 is ranked 64,740^th in the world and 1^st in Cannes for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3,372.52 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.