The Matriarchy of Cloudya is a massive, socially progressive nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 1.082 billion Cloudyans enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The tiny, pro-business government is dominated by the Department of Defense, although Law & Order and Healthcare are also considered important, while Social Policy and International Aid are ignored. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.8%.

The very strong Cloudyan economy, worth 60.5 trillion francs a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Retail, Furniture Restoration, and Soda Sales. Average income is 55,921 francs, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 296,741 per year while the poor average 5,571, a ratio of 53.3 to 1.

Belligerent citizens shoot at passing clouds for 'violating their airspace', citizens are regularly found digging for treasure in their gardens, truth is often impossible to tell from fiction on the evening news, and parents must decide between buying food and taking their children to the park. Crime is a major problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Cloudya's national animal is the panther, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Cloudya is ranked 243,955^th in the world and 40^th in The Forge for Largest Populations, with 1.08 billion capita.