The Loving Couple of Canon Ship is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Barcus with an iron fist, and notable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, keen interest in outer space, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 9.944 billion Canon Shipians 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 Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hexside. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 47.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Canon Shipian economy, worth a remarkable 1,019 trillion snails a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 102,496 snails, with the richest citizens earning 9.9 times as much as the poorest.

The Gallery of Amusing Cat Photographs is the most popular museum in the country, it's not just poseurs who wear oversized sound-cancelling headphones as they walk the city streets, small children pause apologies for their misdeeds to ask what fiscal insolvency actually is, and the diplomatic corps tends to open negotiations by insulting all the foreigners in the room. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Canon Ship's national animal is the owl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Cards.

Canon Ship is ranked 325,450^th in the world and 208^th in chiss ascendancy for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -12.77 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.