The Free Land of Clerb is a large, safe nation, renowned for its national health service, free-roaming dinosaurs, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed population of 132 million Clerbians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 74.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Clerbian economy, worth 4.08 trillion NoTrumps 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 a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. 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 30,907 NoTrumps, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens recently voted in favour of declaring bubblewrap an 'abomination of nature', translators are keen to explain feline MPs' claw and ordure policies, the delay between passed legislation and real world implementation is often a decade or longer, and politicians' smiles are legally considered a form of disaster relief. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Clerb's national animal is the 6 of Spades, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Clerb is ranked 198,894^th in the world and 1^st in The Bullied who will not Bow for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 895.24 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.