The Tropical Island of Claysville is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Clay with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, unlimited-speed roads, and pith helmet sales. The hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 2.672 billion hamsters are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cherrypolis. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Claysvillean economy, worth 561 trillion Bells a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 210,288 Bells, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 628,049 per year while the poor average 55,100, a ratio of 11.4 to 1.

The government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments, homeless people can be found sleeping on streets in front of unoccupied second homes, Clay has been known to make speeches in fishing waders, and protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations. Crime is totally unknown. Claysville's national animal is the bug, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The cult of the Bughors.

Claysville is ranked 26,219^th in the world and 31^st in Lands End for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,152.01 on the Gilded Widget Scale.