The Loving Couple of Canon Ship- is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Viney with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.056 billion Canon Ship-ians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hexside. The average income tax rate is 66.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Canon Ship-ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,235 trillion snails a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 122,825 snails, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.9 times as much as the poorest.

Unshaven men are viewed with suspicion in courts of law, crime pays, the nation's secret service is so secret that nobody knows if it has one, and weekends are spent tilting at windmills. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Canon Ship-'s national animal is the owl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Cards.

Canon Ship- is ranked 158,558^th in the world and 3^rd in New World Union for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 1,851.98 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.