The United Republics of Kanokla is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Alex de la Fontaine with a fair hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, daily referendums, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 12.885 billion Kanoklies 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 large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of District of America. The average income tax rate is 98.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Kanoklan economy, worth a remarkable 2,661 trillion Ameris a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 206,521 Ameris, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit, would-be emigrants are told "abandon all hope all ye who would exit here", fake designer clothes are shredded and burnt while many in the world don't have a shirt on their back, and endangered bison are herded across the border to prevent them from trampling on native prairie grass. Crime is totally unknown. Kanokla's national animal is the North American bison, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Universal Secularism.

Kanokla is ranked 3,758^th in the world and 93^rd in Europe for Most Cultured, scoring 186 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.