The United Republics of Kanokla is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Alex de la Fontaine with a fair hand, and renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, pith helmet sales, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 12.921 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 2,682 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 207,619 Ameris, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Wilderness-dwelling hermits are surprised to find railway stations on their front doorsteps, Alex de la Fontaine's media campaigns take a hiatus around exam week, subsistence farmers require doctorates in applied sowing, and a suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League. 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 1,894^th in the world and 38^th in Europe for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 839.43 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.