The Love Sonnet of Canopus Planet is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Padraig Daniels with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 3.552 billion Canopusians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Canopus City. The average income tax rate is 78.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Canopus economy, worth 130 trillion Federation Credits a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 36,611 Federation Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Future forecasters fearfully discuss grey goo and human obsolescence, the nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms, rural communities are all but disenfranchised as politicians focus all their attention on winning the deciding urban votes, and money can't buy love but mercy is entirely negotiable. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Canopus Planet's national animal is the Nightingale, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Canopus Planet is ranked 236,237^th in the world and 226^th in United Earth Space Probe Agency for Most Secular, with 7.27 Atheism Rate.