The Peoples Republic of Klutos is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Mina with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, enforced nudity, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.737 billion Klutoodens 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lunden Grove. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 74.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Klutosian economy, worth a remarkable 1,034 trillion Janders a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Pizza Delivery, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 118,364 Janders, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 466,714 per year while the poor average 20,349, a ratio of 22.9 to 1.

Labour strikes are routinely squashed by police, residents of new housing subdivisions complain about the total absence of supermarkets and restaurants, the nation grinds to a halt for afternoon tea, and it is technically inaccurate to call the dead 'worm food'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Klutos's national animal is the Coyote, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Violetism.

Klutos is ranked 63,588^th in the world and 59^th in Lone Wolves United for Lowest Crime Rates, with 73.2 law-abiding acts per hour.