The Quesbian Arctic Land of Canoes is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Arctic Lands with an even hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ubiquitous missile silos, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 1.673 billion Canoes are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The medium-sized, pro-business government prioritizes Law & Order, with Defense, Industry, and Administration also on the agenda, while International Aid and Public Transport aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Canoe City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 38.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Canoe economy, worth 139 trillion canoes a year, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 83,548 canoes, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 542,657 per year while the poor average 5,126, a ratio of 105 to 1.

Scrabble champions have been left scrambling for scraps, government officials stay up all night in flame wars with their constituents, government employees have reverted to carrier pigeon due to never-ending virus scans, and Arctic Lands's Twitcher account is once again only used for bragging about the government's accomplishments. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Canoes's national animal is the canoe, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Canoes is ranked 217,051^st in the world and 24^th in Quesbia Puppet Storage for Largest Populations, with 1.67 billion capita.