The Popsicle Pete Nation of Clench is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Joseph with an iron fist, and remarkable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, vat-grown people, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 44.367 billion follower of Josephs are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Industry and Healthcare are also considered important, while Social Policy and Environment aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Joseph City. The average income tax rate is 98.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Josephic economy, worth an astonishing 46,327 trillion monies a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is a breathtaking 1,044,191 monies, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 4,688,347 per year while the poor average 143,727, a ratio of 32.6 to 1.

It's entirely possible foreign diplomats misheard when Clench offered the words "peace be upon you", there's a bustling black market for vegetables, bands of paramedics walk the streets looking for suspicious medical activity, and people are often woken up by rubbish music. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Clench's national animal is the viper, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Josephism.

Clench is ranked 243^rd in the world and 7^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Governments, scoring 91.32 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.