The People's Republic of Canestra is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Marshal Chloe Ulfhild with an iron fist, and remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, compulsory military service, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 1.194 billion Canines are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Spirovia. The average income tax rate is 78.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Canine economy, worth 102 trillion Treats a year, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 86,227 Treats, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

A ban on robots in disguise has transformed the entertainment industry, crocodile roadkill is smeared across the asphalt of the new Formula One track, children as young as eight can present logical proofs for the existence of the afterlife, and sales of pregnancy testing kits are booming. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Canestra's national animal is the Wolfdog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Marxism-Leninism-Ulfhildism.

Canestra is ranked 36,851^st in the world and 379^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 2,381.22 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.