The Free Cities of Clockwork Lands is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Landmaster Faust Kromarek with a fair hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, prohibition of alcohol, and vat-grown people. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 2.55 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. The average income tax rate is 22.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Clockworkland economy, worth 424 trillion vermunts a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 166,614 vermunts, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

Veterans are directed into environmental cleanup operations, the latest "must-have" uPhone is 1/4 mm thinner than last year's uPhone, cities are engulfed by smog, and new mothers can pay for their weekly grocery shop with a bottle of breast milk. Crime is totally unknown. Clockwork Lands's national animal is the sable, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Clockwork Lands is ranked 40,735^th in the world and 52^nd in The Kodiak Republic for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 4,614.85 on the Gilded Widget Scale.