The United Provinces of Clockwork Lands is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Landmaster Caecilia Clemens with a fair hand, and renowned for its strictly enforced bedtime, daily referendums, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 7.701 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 25.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Clockworkland economy, worth a remarkable 2,448 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 317,942 vermunts, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,856,051 per year while the poor average 25,625, a ratio of 72.4 to 1.

Social care for the elderly consists of a self help leaflet and a kick on the backside, businesses are abandoning the city centre because of the lack of transport connections, heartfelt sentiments are mercilessly marketed by a million-vermunt treacle machine, and prison visits increase substantially during election years. Crime, especially youth-related, 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 Virtue.

Clockwork Lands is ranked 14,135^th in the world and 27^th in The Kodiak Republic for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 4,266.95 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.