The People's Republic of Klonazepam is a huge, efficient nation, ruled by Ricardo Marques with an iron fist, and remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, keen interest in outer space, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 935 million Klonazepamians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Galenkia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 16.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Klonazepamian economy, worth 148 trillion Xanaxes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 159,087 Xanaxes, with the richest citizens earning 6.6 times as much as the poorest.

A mushroom a day keeps the sadness away, amusement park rides frequently collapse due to lack of maintenance, the meaning of life was recently discovered in the patch notes for Version 1.42, and citizens who don't recite the Pledge of Klonazepam at least three times a day are placed on a terrorist watch-list. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Klonazepam's national animal is the Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Klonazepam is ranked 50,898^th in the world and 845^th in The East Pacific for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 4,082.97 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.