The Borderlands of Peconic County is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Hampton E Hampster IV with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, complete lack of public education, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 27.611 billion Peconic Countyians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The minute, pro-business government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Law & Order, although Industry is also considered important, while Welfare and Defense are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Montauk Point. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.7%.

The thriving Peconic Countyian economy, worth a remarkable 1,557 trillion Clams a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 56,412 Clams, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 316,080 per year while the poor average 4,995, a ratio of 63.3 to 1.

Universities are populated by the spawn of the upper classes, scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied Bluefish, school uniforms are compulsory, and Hampton E Hampster IV has just been declared ruler of Peconic County in an international press conference. Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Peconic County's national animal is the Bluefish, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Peconic County is ranked 268,404^th in the world and 54^th in New York for Lowest Crime Rates, with 38.72 law-abiding acts per hour.