The Receivership of Driftwood Point is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Woodhead with an iron fist, and remarkable for its enslaved workforce, public floggings, and parental licensing program. The compassionate, cynical population of 2.026 billion Driftwood Pointians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Drift. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 27.0%.

The very strong Driftwood Pointian economy, worth 174 trillion Robot Bucks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 86,248 Robot Bucks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 253,443 per year while the poor average 23,123, a ratio of 11.0 to 1.

Citizens re-mortgage their homes to buy lottery tickets, the military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms, foreign musicians that Woodhead dislikes are turned away at the border, and human tissue is grown in vats as a delicacy as well as for transplants. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Driftwood Point's national animal is the Robot Servant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Driftwood Point is ranked 91,727^th in the world and 6^th in Infrastructure for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 104.5 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.