The Borderlands of Kan Kynanate is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Kyanan Ayşe Ali Barış II with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 1.646 billion Kans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Education, and Spirituality also on the agenda, while International Aid receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Uran. The average income tax rate is 48.5%.

The strong Kan economy, worth 79.1 trillion Einas a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 48,075 Einas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

Referenda are banned by law and the Parliament has absolute control of the legislative process, the military perceives nations hit by natural disasters as "easy pickings", politicians preface their speeches with a declaration that any resemblance to speeches given by individuals living or dead is purely coincidental, and family bonding sessions are considered immoral and are banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kan Kynanate's national animal is the Delta Spring Horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Yellowism.

Kan Kynanate is ranked 255,258^th in the world and 147^th in Barbaria for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -5.29 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.