The Deep Periphery of Clan Spaniel is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by IlKhan Nicholas Keresky with an even hand, and remarkable for its frequent executions, complete lack of prisons, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 6.228 billion Clanners are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gienah. The average income tax rate is 97.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Clan Spanielian economy, worth a remarkable 1,431 trillion credits 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 229,895 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Saying "don't do anything that IlKhan Nicholas Keresky wouldn't do" doesn't exclude a great deal, illegal hunting is rife after veganism was recently made compulsory, late night talk show hosts are having a field day over IlKhan Nicholas Keresky's questionably sane new coalition partners, and Gienah's flashy holiday light displays can be seen from space. Crime 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 24,281^st in the world and 1,269^th in The North Pacific for Most Income Equality, scoring 75.54 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.