The Tropical Island of Claysville is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Clay with a fair hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, national health service, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 4.168 billion hamsters 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 tiny, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cherrypolis. The average income tax rate is 3.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Claysvillean economy, worth a remarkable 1,008 trillion Bells a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 241,957 Bells, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Police officers find government bureaucracy more terrifying than most serial killers, minority children spend hours bussing to schools miles away from home, failed genetic experiments wreak havoc as they roam the countryside, and the breathalyser pledge is a traditional part of marriages in Claysville. Crime is totally unknown. Claysville's national animal is the bug, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The cult of the Bughors.

Claysville is ranked 2,588^th in the world and 1^st in Lands End for Most Cultured, scoring 230 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.