The City of Eau Claire is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Stephanie Hirsch with an even hand, and remarkable for its frequent executions, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 1.1 billion Eau Claireans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Eau Claire. The average income tax rate is 67.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Eau Clairean economy, worth 79.0 trillion dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 71,789 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Eau Claire Enquirer offers weekly cash prizes for 'most blasphemous song, story, or cartoon', crowded passenger trains are near-silent save for the soft tap of fingers on touchscreens, the fattest folk in Eau Claire look to be the happiest ones, and escargots have lost their charm ever since they started to be called 'cooked land snails'. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eau Claire's national animal is the badger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Eau Claire is ranked 41,898^th in the world and 856^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 3,283.01 on the Gilded Widget Scale.