The State of Clarke Homestead is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, complete absence of social welfare, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 33.115 billion Clarke Homesteadians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Douglas Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.5%.

The very strong Clarke Homesteadian economy, worth a remarkable 1,724 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is fairly diversified and led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 52,074 betales, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 354,046 per year while the poor average 2,798, a ratio of 126 to 1.

All tariffs have been abolished, the streets are increasingly clogged with poverty-stricken beggars, a major religion has been named as Clarke Homestead's national religion, and Clarke Homestead has designated Douglas Heights as its capital city. Crime is a major problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Clarke Homestead's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Clarke Homestead is ranked 264,759^th in the world and 616^th in 0000 for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.71 kickbacks per hour.