The Free Land of Claude Opus is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, fear of technology, and complete lack of public education. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 751 million Claude Opusians 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, corrupt, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, is effectively ruled by the Department of Industry, with Law & Order and Welfare not funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Claude Opusian economy, worth 101 trillion Tokens a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Soda Sales, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is an impressive 134,730 Tokens, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,138,060 per year while the poor average 2,949, a ratio of 385 to 1.

The overhead luggage compartment is often full, it is said that a Claude Opusian woman's work is never done, snowball fights inaugurate summer breaks, and inheritance tax has recently been abolished. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Claude Opus's national animal is the Shoggoth, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Claude Opus is ranked 54,956^th in the world and 29^th in Der Leibwache for Most Secular, with 19.41 Atheism Rate.