The Federation of Whitecloud is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, ubiquitous missile silos, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 831 million Cloudlanders are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Windfall. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 15.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Cloudlander economy, worth 82.0 trillion plasmids a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Black market activity is notable. Average income is 98,705 plasmids, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 708,332 per year while the poor average 4,456, a ratio of 158 to 1.

Airship use has soared while property values beneath their routes have plummeted, prisons are crowded with possible terrorist suspects, the nanny industry has had a boom after maternity leave was recently banned, and well-off serial killers write monthly checks to avoid jail time. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, thanks to a capable police force. Whitecloud's national animal is the cleaner worm, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Whitecloud is ranked 23^rd in the world and 2^nd in Osiris for Highest Drug Use, scoring 423.28 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.