The United Socialist States of Cake Cannon 15 is a massive, safe nation, notable for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The democratic population of 1.024 billion Cannoneers are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 67.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Cannonian economy, worth 11.8 trillion cakes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Cheese Exports, Soda Sales, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 11,541 cakes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, bad punctuation has come to a full stop, they say that Cannoneers made a dessert and called it peace, and political detractors refer to Leader as 'that Bigtopian puppet'. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cake Cannon 15's national animal is the cannon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cake Cannon 15 is ranked 304,934^th in the world and 1^st in Islamic union of free states for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -13.43 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.