The Republic of Clone Commander 1 is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, compulsory military service, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed population of 1.287 billion Clone Commander 1ians 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 41.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Clone Commander 1ian economy, worth 62.8 trillion Credits a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 48,776 Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Hot dogs have been renamed lukewarm pigs, party leaders rely on horoscopes to create "ticket balance", TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, and odysseying merchant sailors swear that they've heard sirens in the western seas. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Clone Commander 1's national animal is the Droid, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Clone Commander 1 is ranked 270,047^th in the world and 4,333^rd in eta for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -6.96 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.