The United Socialist States of Cake Cannon is a massive, socially progressive nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, absence of drug laws, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working, democratic population of 1.341 billion Cannoneers live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The tiny, liberal, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.9%.

The very strong Cannonian economy, worth 65.1 trillion pancakes a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Furniture Restoration, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 48,573 pancakes, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 211,008 per year while the poor average 7,088, a ratio of 29.8 to 1.

Seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma, urban entrepreneurs are busy introducing cockroaches into restaurant kitchens, Cake Cannon Barrier Island residents anxiously await their 'Bridge to Somewhere', and a bill to outlaw math homework has been submitted. Crime is a serious problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Cake Cannon's national animal is the pancake, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Cake Cannon is ranked 52,561^st in the world and 1^st in Vinnytsia Oblast for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3,644.22 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.