The Popsicle Pete Nation of Clench is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Joseph with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, vat-grown people, and triple-decker prams. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 33.511 billion follower of Josephs are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Industry and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Social Policy and Environment are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Joseph City. The average income tax rate is 98.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Josephic economy, worth an astonishing 35,059 trillion monies a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is a breathtaking 1,046,195 monies, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,034,268 per year while the poor average 285,694, a ratio of 10.6 to 1.

Parents receive hefty fines for telling kids to eat their vegetables, many of the unemployed have had the fight taken out of them, when shaking hands with foreign leaders Joseph wears an armoured gauntlet, and truancy officers have a hard time catching children trained in advanced camouflage skills. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Clench's national animal is the viper, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Josephism.

Clench is ranked 215,421^st in the world and 4,903^rd in the Rejected Realms for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring -65.04 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.