The Republic of War Dogs CLVI is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Dog O'War with an iron fist, and notable for its parental licensing program, anti-smoking policies, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 4.274 billion War Dogs 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, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of WD Central. The average income tax rate is 78.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Canine economy, worth 725 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 169,684 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Jaywalking is punishable by public flogging, citizens wishing to leave the country must surrender half their wealth to the government, the nation's infamous boot camp is more brutal than most battlefields, and postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. War Dogs CLVI's national animal is the dog, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Canis Majorism.

War Dogs CLVI is ranked 333,777^th in the world and 783^rd in Realm of Dogs for Most Cultured, scoring 20 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.