The Western Movie Director of The Conductor is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Conductor with a fair hand, and remarkable for its burgeoning owl population. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 6.735 billion Conductorians 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, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Environment, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Owl Express. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 19.2%.

The powerhouse Conductorian economy, worth 627 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 93,239 dollars, with the richest citizens earning 7.9 times as much as the poorest.

Vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction, the secret ingredient is love (and MSG), excited shovel-bearing geeks wander the countryside, and euthanasia is legal. Crime is almost non-existent. The Conductor's national animal is the owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Violetism.

The Conductor is ranked 169,465^th in the world and 105^th in Autumnal Court for Lowest Crime Rates, with 59.35 law-abiding acts per hour.