The Artistry of Claude Monet is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Claude Oscar Monet with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 45.375 billion Claude Monetians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Giverny. The average income tax rate is 45.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Claude Monetian economy, worth an astonishing 10,519 trillion euros 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Uranium Mining, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. 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 an amazing 231,844 euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Frustrated women are overjoyed at the provision of communal washing machines, pharmacists increasingly claim they are morally obligated to take long lunches, extraordinary tribunals try accused financial criminals, and judges are rumored to find in favor of whoever bribes them the most. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Claude Monet's national animal is the lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Atheism.

Claude Monet is ranked 38,695^th in the world and 20^th in Nederland for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 182.52 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.