The Realm of The Land of Heat and Clock Work is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by David Strider with an iron fist, and remarkable for its digital currency, parental licensing program, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 21.202 billion Land of Heat and Clock Workians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Beat Mesa. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Land of Heat and Clock Workian economy, worth a remarkable 2,934 trillion Boondollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 138,404 Boondollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 578,251 per year while the poor average 21,604, a ratio of 26.8 to 1.

Divorce is illegal, organ donation is compulsory, murderers frequently escape punishment by claiming they were protecting their honour, and there has been a rapid increase of noise complaints over the sound of buzzing bees. Crime, especially youth-related, is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. The Land of Heat and Clock Work's national animal is the Crocodile, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

The Land of Heat and Clock Work is ranked 28,616^th in the world and 15^th in Africa for Most Corrupt Governments, with 75.34 kickbacks per hour.