The Detachment of Doctor Manhattan is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Jon Osterman with an iron fist, and remarkable for its digital currency, sprawling nuclear power plants, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 22.862 billion Creations are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Clockwork Pink Glass. The average income tax rate is 72.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The a Creation economy, worth a remarkable 1,253 trillion tachyons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. Average income is 54,846 tachyons, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

The populace lives in fear of painful execution for minor offences, the Supreme Court vehemently protects civil rights and the right to privacy, the nation is reliant on the principle of mutually assured destruction to maintain its security, and families consisting of more than three people are forced to split up. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Doctor Manhattan's national animal is the life form, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Veidt Utopianism.

Doctor Manhattan is ranked 78,940^th in the world and 1^st in The Planet Mars for Most Authoritarian, with 1,182.48 milliStalins.