The Republic of Francanada is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Estrella Arthron with a fair hand, and renowned for its smutty television, soft-spoken computers, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 5.917 billion Francanadans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nilitrenna. The average income tax rate is 97.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Francanadan economy, worth a remarkable 1,011 trillion Francs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 170,942 Francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Graffiti is done with immaculate multi-layer shading, ice-filled coffins are ominously positioned in the corner of every hospital ward, the comic book series 'Estrella Arthron and the Villainous Corporate Cronies' is a best-seller, and no one questions why the chicken crossed the road anymore. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Francanada's national animal is the Pig, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Humanist Atheism.

Francanada is ranked 124,360^th in the world and 40^th in The Frontier Sea for Largest Populations, with 5.92 billion capita.