The Deep Periphery of Clan Spaniel is a massive, genial nation, ruled by IlKhan Nicholas Keresky with a fair hand, and renowned for its rampant corporate plagiarism, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.165 billion Clanners 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 government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gienah. The average income tax rate is 94.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Clan Spanielian economy, worth 385 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 significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 178,035 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Large sections of Clan Spaniel have been named national reserves to protect the native tribes living there, in this vegetarian nation the delicious smell of roasted meat is oddly commonplace, the government is pouring billions into replacement brains, and the examiners who examine examiners are being examined by examiners. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Clan Spaniel's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Cult of Kerensky.

Clan Spaniel is ranked 4,456^th in the world and 226^th in The North Pacific for Least Corrupt Governments, with 95.24 Percentage Of Bribes Refused.