The Disciples of Drifting Cloud Sect is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Wei Yiming with an iron fist, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, keen interest in outer space, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The compassionate, cynical population of 2.961 billion inner disciples are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of the Six Marvelous Peaks. The average income tax rate is 40.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving cultivation economy, worth 243 trillion Spirit Stones 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, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Book Publishing, Furniture Restoration, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 82,145 Spirit Stones, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The new Refuse Hills housing development is under construction, being a member of the glee club disqualifies inner disciples from space travel, drills and shovels have been banned as the government cracks down on any means of fracking, and explicit slash fiction is repackaged for kindergarten kids as stories about friends cuddling friends. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Drifting Cloud Sect's national animal is the Seabreaking Kun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Heavenly Dao.

Drifting Cloud Sect is ranked 241,405^th in the world and 164^th in The Glorious Nations of Iwaku for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -13.85 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.