The Republic of The Canucks is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Francesco Aquilini with an iron fist, and renowned for its disturbing lack of elderly people, compulsory gun ownership, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 10.958 billion Canucksians 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vancouver. The average income tax rate is 72.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Canucksian economy, worth a remarkable 1,503 trillion rubles a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 137,205 rubles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Brave curators do battle with disorganised government libraries, cobras that venture near secret military bases are shipped off to prison for espionage, young soldiers are shocked to discover there are no 'safe spaces' on a battlefield, and elderly prisoners with severe dementia are reminded hourly that they are evil people by helpful nurse-wardens. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Canucks's national animal is the cobra, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The Canucks is ranked 20,789^th in the world and 781^st in The North Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 89.1 law-abiding acts per hour.