The Popsicle Pete Nation of Clench is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Joseph with an iron fist, and renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, disturbing lack of elderly people, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 44.666 billion follower of Josephs 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 relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Industry and Healthcare are also considered important, while Social Policy and Environment are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Joseph City. The average income tax rate is 98.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Josephic economy, worth an astonishing 46,639 trillion monies a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is a breathtaking 1,044,191 monies, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 4,688,347 per year while the poor average 143,727, a ratio of 32.6 to 1.

It's entirely possible foreign diplomats misheard when Clench offered the words "peace be upon you", there's a bustling black market for vegetables, bands of paramedics walk the streets looking for suspicious medical activity, and people are often woken up by rubbish music. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Clench's national animal is the viper, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Josephism.

Clench is ranked 316,872^nd in the world and 2,396^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring -65.95 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.