Canada
Canada | |
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Motto: A Mari Usque Ad Mare Usque Ad Mare | |
Anthem: Song of a Thousand Lyrics | |
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Capital | Ottawa |
Largest city | Toronto |
Official languages | English, Frenchaise |
Government | Federal parliamentary democracy & constitutional monarchy |
• Monarch | Her Magesty Queen Elizabeth II |
• Governor General | Julie Payette |
• Prime Minister | Trudeau II: Justin Time |
National hero(es) | Too modest to list them here |
Establishment | |
• British North America Acts | July 1, 1867 |
• Statute of Westminster | December 11, 1931 |
• Canada Act | April 17, 1982 |
Area | |
• Total | 9,984,670 km2 (3,855,100 sq mi) |
Population | |
• Q4 2018 estimate | 37,242,571 |
• 2016 census | 35,151,728 |
• Density | 3.92/km2 (10.2/sq mi) |
Currency | Canadian Dollar |
Major exports | Natural resources, jobs |
Major imports | Everything American |
National animal | Beaver |
Drives on the | right |
Canada is the second-biggest country in the world. It was invaded by the Eastern Union under the control of Thorvald's old avatars in DRAW Your Own Story 10, and has been under occupation since. It was also invaded by Pontbridge, then Taillenia and the Republic of Coruscant in DYOS 5 when the world was divided up among the DYOSers.
Canada's chief exports are beer and hockey players. According to some particularly self-assured earthworms[a], Canada is 50% trees, 50% rocks, and 50% water (40% of which is trapped in the icecap, so it's not a viable trading commodity). Canadians are some of the politest people in the world and are very self-conscious about their international image.[b] Canadian domestic politics, in contrast, revolve around the single question of who will cut taxes the most while kissing up to Québec the least.
Most of Canada's urban centres are concentrated in the south of the country, along the American border.[c] The population density falls sharply outside of south-eastern Ontario, and British people frequently become frightened after driving for two hours without passing through another settlement. Like all civilized former colonies, Canada provides special reservation for all its native populations save the Inuit, who have no set boundaries imposed on established for them. This is mainly because until the discovery of petroleum, there wasn't any useful land for the imperialists to steal.[d]