The Imperial Caninese Empire of The Canine Race is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Prime Minister Zykhza Khibakh with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, parental licensing program, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.494 billion Canines are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Khanisia'dakida. The average income tax rate is 69.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Caninese economy, worth a remarkable 1,247 trillion Owiniman Credits a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 192,025 Owiniman Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Advertisements read like science journal articles complete with extensive references, racial supremacists indulge their wildest fantasies in cinemas and theatres across the nation, retirement homes are filled with foreign war criminals, and metal detectors at school gates make sure that teenagers are carrying at least one sidearm. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Canine Race's national animal is the Canine, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is The Canine Way.

The Canine Race is ranked 275,152^nd in the world and 10,561^st in Lazarus for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -11.4 on the Clooney Contribution Index.