The Federation of Klaussa is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Kostyantyn Lyubchenko with an iron fist, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 6.924 billion Klaussians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kalinigorsk. The average income tax rate is 84.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Klaussan economy, worth 945 trillion Credits 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 large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Uranium Mining. 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 an impressive 136,485 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Power to the people comes from the barrel of a gun, people believe that if you teach a man to fish he won't buy fish from you any more, schoolchildren are arrested for possessing sidewalk chalk without a permit, and the nation's space program is doxxing the planet. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Klaussa's national animal is the White Bear, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Imperialis.

Klaussa is ranked 13,098^th in the world and 30^th in The Land of Kings and Emperors for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 84.6 Effective Tax Rate.