The Commonwealth of East Canuck is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Prime Minister with an even hand, and remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 43.526 billion Canuckers enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Montreal. The average income tax rate is 73.0%.

The frighteningly efficient East Canuckian economy, worth a remarkable 3,683 trillion dollars a year, is highly specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 84,627 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

Scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, East Canuck's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region, a new guerrilla marketing campaign for tap water involves government agents spraying random citizens with hose water, and would-be emigrants are told "abandon all hope all ye who would exit here". Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. East Canuck's national animal is the unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is none.

East Canuck is ranked 42,206^th in the world and 34^th in Canada for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 4,495.59 on the Gilded Widget Scale.