The Dominion of The Clockwork Multiverse is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its complete lack of prisons, smutty television, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 581 million Clockwork Engineers love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Creation's Gate. The average income tax rate is 72.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Multiversal economy, worth 20.4 trillion bytes a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 35,192 bytes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, economists have been named Invertebrates of the Year, extraordinary tribunals try accused financial criminals, and boats straying just metres away from the shore will raise the ire of the Coast Guard. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Clockwork Multiverse's national animal is the quantum sparrow, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

The Clockwork Multiverse is ranked 109,605^th in the world and 1,879^th in The East Pacific for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 2,947.79 on the Hickory Productivity Index.