The Great Kingdom of Kannonate is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Velma Dinkley with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 12.98 billion Kanneans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sanister. The average income tax rate is 92.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Kannonatean economy, worth a remarkable 1,206 trillion Platibars a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Automobile Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 92,927 Platibars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Commuters are denied boarding for attempting to bring packed lunches onto trains, school teachers check the staff room for hidden webcams before complaining about rebellious students, prices for nearly everything reach all-time highs as business tax breaks are discontinued, and the nation's hospitals are criticized for caring more about profits than patients. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kannonate's national animal is the Fractal Beast, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kannonate is ranked 28,778^th in the world and 1,924^th in Balder for Lowest Crime Rates, with 83.46 law-abiding acts per hour.