The Giant Duchy of Clakim is a titanic, efficient nation, notable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, national health service, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 21.103 billion Clakimians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Environment. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 80.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Clakimian economy, worth a remarkable 2,226 trillion Nylis a year, is highly specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 105,516 Nylis, with the richest citizens earning 7.2 times as much as the poorest.

The Nylis is newly gilt in trust, sniffer dogs check train passengers for body odour, religion is strictly forbidden within school grounds, and if a tree falls in the forest there is no sound except a cash register ringing. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Clakim's national animal is the mongoose, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Clakim is ranked 258,301^st in the world and 44^th in Audinesca for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 27.31 on the Bus Surprisal Index.