The Dominion of Ink Cloud is a gargantuan, genial nation, notable for its rum-swilling pirates, daily referendums, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 14.85 billion ink lads are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of odd-looking hump. The average income tax rate is 84.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient ink-clad economy, worth a remarkable 2,494 trillion splodges 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Information Technology and Book Publishing. 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 167,956 splodges, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Genocide is seen as a topic best avoided in history lessons, cat memes without alt text are now illegal, intoxicated AI mobile platforms are sometimes seen crashing through windows instead of being crashed by them, and hit TV comedies "The Big Government Theory" and "Young Leader" have high ratings but low quality. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ink Cloud's national animal is the octopus, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is uwu.

Ink Cloud is ranked 35,100^th in the world and 383^rd in The Communist Bloc for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 5,130.46 on the Gilded Widget Scale.