The Repentant Renegade of Chuck Clayton is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Chuck Clayton with an even hand, and notable for its avant-garde cinema, keen interest in outer space, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 13.054 billion Riverdalians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Riverdale. The average income tax rate is 73.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Riverdalian economy, worth a remarkable 1,238 trillion Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Pizza Delivery. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 94,905 Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Roaming gangsters have been replaced by roaming drunkards, judicial robes are the country's hottest fashion trend, it's been a banner year for local vexillology, and polygraphs are relegated to the dungeon exhibit in castle museums. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Chuck Clayton's national animal is the Beaver, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Pop Tate-ism.

Chuck Clayton is ranked 311,609^th in the world and 4^th in Riverdale for Nicest Citizens, with 0.65 average smiles per day.