The Commonwealth of Bow Cand is a very large, safe nation, notable for its compulsory military service, disturbing lack of elderly people, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 308 million Bow Candians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 80.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Bow Candian economy, worth 8.73 trillion horns a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. Average income is 28,349 horns, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Wigged-out hunters report playing croquet with the Queen of Hearts, tax evaders are regularly visited by agents of the Bow Cand Blood Tithe, third party candidates are now gaining some representation in Parliament, and internet moderator is one of the most popular jobs among the nation's more socially awkward citizens. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bow Cand's national animal is the cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bow Cand is ranked 55,258^th in the world and 87^th in Karma for Most Cultured, scoring 71 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.