The Socialist Republic of Kavanos is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Daihai with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and infamous sell-swords. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 13.933 billion Kavaneses are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kalit City. The average income tax rate is 84.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Kavanese economy, worth a remarkable 2,899 trillion KVN Credits a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 208,079 KVN Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Environmentalists are staging large protests in front of reopened nuclear power plants, every week is blindness awareness week, keeping the lights on keeps the lights on for increasing amounts of Kavaneses, and bridge salesmen line up for blocks to make their cases at Daihai's office. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Kavanos's national animal is the firefox, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Confucianism.

Kavanos is ranked 331,272^nd in the world and 4,260^th in The East Pacific for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 16.87 on the Bus Surprisal Index.