The Holy Empire of An Clar is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Gaius Melkor with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, national health service, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 32.336 billion Clarians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare are also considered important, while International Aid isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Inis. The income tax rate is 100%.

The enormous but underdeveloped Clarian economy, worth a remarkable 4,778 trillion banner yoyoes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 147,773 banner yoyoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Veterans in wheelchairs are left waist-deep in rice paddies to gather grain, colonists who were promised new lands find only war-torn devastation, angry disenfranchised AIs attempt to hijack the bodies of comatose hospital patients, and the Clarian military is limping towards victory. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. An Clar's national animal is the magpie, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Melkorianism.

An Clar is ranked 6,972^nd in the world and 126^th in Europe for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 470.66 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.