The Oppressed Peoples of The Timekeepers is a gargantuan, orderly nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The cynical population of 25.529 billion people are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 67.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Alive economy, worth 532 trillion Grains of Sand a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Cheese Exports, Information Technology, Pizza Delivery, and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 20,876 Grains of Sand, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Military funding has been stripped back, citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes, the nation's official head of religious affairs is an atheist, and citizens select which government department gets their income tax Grains of Sand each year. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Timekeepers's national animal is the Clock, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Timekeepers is ranked 191,851^st in the world and 1^st in Time for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 536.62 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.