The Federal Republic of Clodes is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its pith helmet sales and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 643 million Clodesians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 27.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Clodesian economy, worth 30.0 trillion bcoins a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 46,619 bcoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Ministers are now allowed to put suggestions in the governmental suggestion box, roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews, rundown towns are frequently sold to billionaires for their pet projects, and the government puts forth the claim that harming young girls is wrong. Crime is totally unknown. Clodes's national animal is the Guara wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Clodes is ranked 97,464^th in the world and 3,216^th in the South Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 1,650.49 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.