The Collective of Wineclaw is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, national health service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 16.586 billion Wineclaws are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Consciousness. The average income tax rate is 96.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Wineclaw economy, worth a remarkable 1,971 trillion cells a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 118,866 cells, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Leader is considering changing the Wineclaw flag to one with more glitter, history textbook pages are used as impromptu tissues by distraught students, Wineclaw has designated Consciousness as its capital city, and internet searches for the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered Wineclaw weed picker are way up. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wineclaw's national animal is the peregrine falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Wineclaw is ranked 21,894^th in the world and 1,148^th in The North Pacific for Most Income Equality, scoring 77.56 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.