The Animated Adventures of Long Distance Clara is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Clara Naughton with an iron fist, and renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, compulsory vegetarianism, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.99 billion Loads are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pigeon Street. The average income tax rate is 90.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Long Distance Claran economy, worth a remarkable 2,384 trillion Pound Sterlings a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 216,975 Pound Sterlings, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

Witnesses have to run a gauntlet of mob enforcers to testify at trials, Loads are regularly fired for looking at MyFace during their lunch breaks, gun-wielding criminals always wear appropriate eye and ear protection, and recruitment posters proclaim the army to be both fabulous and fashionable. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Long Distance Clara's national animal is the Pigeon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is the Transport and General Workers Union.

Long Distance Clara is ranked 6,156^th in the world and 32^nd in The Card Mine for Most Corrupt Governments, with 201.04 kickbacks per hour.