The Collective of Wineclaw is a gargantuan, cultured nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 16.79 billion Wineclaws are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Consciousness. The average income tax rate is 96.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Wineclaw economy, worth a remarkable 2,011 trillion cells a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 119,803 cells, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Kindergartners' favourite dance move is the stop-drop-and-roll, vaccinations are mandatory, the official Wineclaw Phrase Book weighs as much as a small child, and Big Agriculture has the government by the nuts. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wineclaw's national animal is the peregrine falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Wineclaw is ranked 5,716^th in the world and 341^st in The North Pacific for Healthiest Citizens, with 18.77 bananas ingested per day.