The Confederacy of Kanervia is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its smutty television, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.96 billion Kanervians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kaner City. The average income tax rate is 78.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Kanervian economy, worth 682 trillion Hexes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 137,609 Hexes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

The sound of wooden legs echo throughout Kanervia after the recent introduction of the Foot Tax, the government is attempting to revitalize a gutted private sector, satellite images show safe electoral constituencies in complete darkness, and Kaner City's main city thoroughfare has been blocked by a row of leyland cypresses that mysteriously appeared overnight. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kanervia's national animal is the grasshopper, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kanervia is ranked 32,475^th in the world and 345^th in the Pacific for Highest Average Incomes, with 137,609.71 Standard Monetary Units.