The Republic of Clone Trooper 17 is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 1.362 billion Clone Trooper 17ians 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 35.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Clone Trooper 17ian economy, worth 54.8 trillion Credits a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Pizza Delivery, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 40,234 Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Political clichés like "band-aid solutions" and "adrenaline shots to the economy" are headed for the dumpster, urban graffiti is hand-calligraphed in perfectly kerned elegant fonts, Maxtopian tourists make expensive pilgrimages to Clone Trooper 17 City to enjoy their national art, and the new Refuse Hills housing development is under construction. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Clone Trooper 17's national animal is the Droid, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Clone Trooper 17 is ranked 107,868^th in the world and 1,139^th in eta for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 787.57 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.