The United Provinces of Clockwork Lands is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by Landmaster Edo Brante with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, compulsory military service, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 7.608 billion Clockworklandians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Coppergate. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 25.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Clockworkland economy, worth a remarkable 2,391 trillion vermunts a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an amazing 314,293 vermunts, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,684,795 per year while the poor average 30,647, a ratio of 55.0 to 1.

Animal Liberationists are regularly arrested, books are so highly regarded in Clockwork Lands that libraries are often revered as holy shrines, soldiers on first dates introduce themselves only by their ranks and serial numbers, and the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit. Crime is totally unknown. Clockwork Lands's national animal is the sable, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Epicuranism.

Clockwork Lands is ranked 100,170^th in the world and 100^th in The Kodiak Republic for Highest Poor Incomes, with 30,647.54 Standard Monetary Units.