The Republic of Canthavit is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.767 billion Canthavites love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Guevarastadt. The average income tax rate is 80.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Canthavitian economy, worth 71.1 trillion Trigs 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 led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 40,256 Trigs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The little guy plays a big role in Canthavitian politics, the government seeks peaceful forum with terrorists, protests are legal but strictly supervised, and park rangers struggle to deal with a rash of stolen pic-a-nic baskets. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Canthavit's national animal is the Vermilion Octopus, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Canthavit is ranked 15,755^th in the world and 456^th in The Communist Bloc for Safest, scoring 116.21 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.