The United Socialist States of Clan Spaniel is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its otherworldly petting zoo, rampant corporate plagiarism, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed population of 587 million Clanners are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gienah. The average income tax rate is 73.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Clan Spanielian economy, worth 65.4 trillion credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 111,431 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Appliance stores are finding spy cameras embedded in their unboxed merchandise, trouble-makers are frequently turned in to the government to be 'recycled', the nation's infamous boot camp is more brutal than most battlefields, and the aphorism "there's no need to argue" has been dismissed by Clanners. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Clan Spaniel's national animal is the fenrir, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Clan Spaniel is ranked 65,434^th in the world and 3,598^th in The North Pacific for Most Extensive Civil Rights, with 64.31 Martin Luther King, Jr. Units.