Location: Discordia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Empire of CLU is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by Erisson I Hastur with a fair hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 19.978 billion live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Social Equality receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of CLU CLU Land. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 42%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, followed by Gambling and Book Publishing.

Students are known to arrive at school in their pyjamas, citizens are permitted to carry concealed handguns, anti-government web sites are springing up, and the welfare administration’s new sweeping authority has forced the poor and needy to shop from pre-approved grocery lists. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. CLU's national animal is the grid bug, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the arcade token.

CLU is ranked 17th in Discordia and 99,873rd in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -9 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and