The Democratic Republic of Kaanstan is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Big owo with a fair hand, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, parental licensing program, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.193 billion Kaanstanians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of owostanbul. The average income tax rate is 78.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Kaanstanian economy, worth 206 trillion owomiums a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 94,033 owomiums, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Little kids often wonder why strange grown-ups are following them around the soft play areas, solid-gold toilets are Kaanstanian prisons' least expensive furnishings, people can often be seen driving to work in war-surplus tanks, and cities are engulfed by smog. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kaanstan's national animal is the local Slain, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kaanstan is ranked 82,854^th in the world and 95^th in Spiritus for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 2,690.07 on the Hickory Productivity Index.