The Collective of Wineclaw is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its national health service, unlimited-speed roads, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 9.685 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, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 94.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Wineclaw economy, worth a remarkable 1,064 trillion cells a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 109,953 cells, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Incarcerated crime lords manage their empires from massage tables, cane fights are a common sight in nursing homes, it is not politically correct to suspect that a serially convicted burglar might steal again, and many friends and relatives of Leader have been given ambassador jobs in tropical island nations. 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 22,874^th in the world and 1,211^th in The North Pacific for Most Income Equality, scoring 67.53 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.