The Clowns of A Society is a mammoth, efficient nation, renowned for its restrictive gun laws and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working population of 5.82 billion Societyians are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The relatively small, moralistic, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 11.9%.

The very strong Societyian economy, worth 344 trillion jokes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Soda Sales industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Information Technology, and Retail. Average income is 59,266 jokes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 208,678 per year while the poor average 12,187, a ratio of 17.1 to 1.

Military spending recently hit a new high, Harry Potter books are banned, the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit, and people are bored of easy crossword puzzles. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. A Society's national animal is the bat.

A Society is ranked 108,814^th in the world and 2,633^rd in The catholic military orders for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 33.2 on the Bus Surprisal Index.