Canada (Canada/Japan/Germany)

Canada ( / ˈ k æ n ə d ə / ) is a North American country consisting of forty-nine provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean. Spanning over 17,000,000 km2 (10,625,000 sq mi), Canada is the world's second-largest country by total area. It shares a common border with the Confederate States.

The land that is now Canada has been inhabited for millennia by various Aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and French colonial expeditions explored, and later settled, along the region's Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763 after the Seven Years' War. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy; the Canada Act 1982 severed the vestiges of legal dependence on Britain. In 1988, Donald I became the country's first Canadian-born monarch. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">Canada is a <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;"> federal state<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">that officially is governed as a <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;"> parliamentary democracy<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">and a <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;"> constitutional monarchy<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">, with King <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;"> Donald I<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">as its head of state. Many observers, however, have criticized the reign of King/Prime Minister Don Cherry as excessively authoritarian, xenophobic, and imperialistic. The country is <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;"> officially bilingual<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">at the federal level. Canada's diversified economy is <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;"> one of the world's largest<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">, and is reliant upon its abundant natural resources and industrial base in the south, as well as trade with the Confederate States, with which Canada has had a <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;"> long and complex relationship<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">. It is a member of the <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;"> United Nations<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">.