The Colony of Clippit is a massive, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 1.268 billion Clippitians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The relatively small, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 14.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Clippitian economy, worth 58.2 trillion documents a year, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 45,876 documents, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Workers of "fairweather faith" claim six months of paid leave for holy days per year, Leader's relatives have been married into the royal families of foreign nations against their will, former customs officers are adjusting to their new lives as market stall traders, and euthanasia is illegal. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Clippit's national animal is the paperclip, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Clippit is ranked 184,529^th in the world and 4^th in Retrocomputers for Most Developed, scoring 53.79 on the Human Development Index.