The Loving Couple of CanonShip is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Jerbo with an iron fist, and notable for its pith helmet sales, frequent executions, and compulsory vegetarianism. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 9.948 billion CanonShipians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hexside. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 55.7%.

The frighteningly efficient CanonShipian economy, worth a remarkable 1,155 trillion snails a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 116,137 snails, with the richest citizens earning 6.8 times as much as the poorest.

Tourists are denied entry because of a distant relative married to a Lilliputian, the government says only criminals harp on about "innocent until proven guilty", foreign planes and migratory birds are shot down as spies, and the religious lobby has the power of veto over health initiatives. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. CanonShip's national animal is the owl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Cards.

CanonShip is ranked 326,853^rd in the world and 5^th in The International UN for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -13.86 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.