The Kingdom of Cluo is a massive, orderly nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, deadly medical pandemics, and lack of airports. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 2.11 billion Cluoans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 72.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Cluoan economy, worth 255 trillion guilders 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 an impressive 120,982 guilders, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

The state has declared war on the environment and environmentalists by association, blind students are at a disadvantage now that test papers printed in braille have been discontinued, mountains of VHS tapes of police actions are stacking up in the National Library, and wildlife parks are packed with poachers yet increasingly devoid of animals. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cluo's national animal is the elephant, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Cluo is ranked 288,023^rd in the world and 295^th in The Khamen Union for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -10.11 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.