The United Provinces of Clockwork Lands is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Landmaster Edo Brante with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, infamous sell-swords, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 7.615 billion Clockworklandians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Coppergate. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 25.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Clockworkland economy, worth a remarkable 2,394 trillion vermunts a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an amazing 314,470 vermunts, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,699,359 per year while the poor average 30,143, a ratio of 56.4 to 1.

The alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit, when it comes to flavor there's no gain without pain, foreign policy often involves bullwhips and leather, and bus ads propagandize causes ranging from sexual revolution to religious pogroms. Crime is totally unknown. Clockwork Lands's national animal is the sable, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Epicuranism.

Clockwork Lands is ranked 2,532^nd in the world and 3^rd in The Kodiak Republic for Most Cultured, scoring 234 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.