The Republic of County of Cleves is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its enslaved workforce, public floggings, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 939 million County of Clevesians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 45.4%.

The frighteningly efficient County of Clevesian economy, worth 84.6 trillion Ducats a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Tourism. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 90,116 Ducats, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 358,145 per year while the poor average 15,293, a ratio of 23.4 to 1.

The family summer vacation has become a thing of the past following the introduction of the year-round school year, judicial robes are the country's hottest fashion trend, the volume of paperwork used to complete a single environmental assessment defeats the purpose, and veteran cops reminisce over their heavy armor days. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. County of Cleves's national animal is the Bear, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

County of Cleves is ranked 40,617^th in the world and 175^th in Novaya Zemlya for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 2,251.92 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.