The Republic of Cloney is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by High Council with a fair hand, and notable for its digital currency, anti-smoking policies, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 13.564 billion Exuls 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 large, corrupt, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Novo Portus. The average income tax rate is 95.3%.

The frighteningly efficient an Exul economy, worth a remarkable 2,264 trillion Credits a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 166,941 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Bridge salesmen line up for blocks to make their cases at High Council's office, anyone with an emergency on a holy day is advised to pray harder, the government subsidizes those who produce the worst results, and politicians accost strangers in the street to ask their problems. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cloney's national animal is the CAV-24 Dropship, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cloney is ranked 6,584^th in the world and 1^st in Axiom Supercluster for Longest Average Lifespans, with 92.35 years.