The Democratic States of Channa Marches is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by President Phillip 'Phil' Argus with a fair hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, flagrant waste-dumping, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 7.831 billion Channese are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The enormous, pro-business, outspoken government prioritizes Administration, with Education, Industry, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Welfare are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ciudad del Río Meta. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 42.8%.

The all-consuming Channese economy, worth 307 trillion Channese pennies a year, is quite specialized and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Soda Sales. Average income is 39,240 Channese pennies, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 168,688 per year while the poor average 5,832, a ratio of 28.9 to 1.

All beauty contests have been banned, postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation, even the most lowly council pen-pusher has the same political power as a senior minister, and the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. Channa Marches's national animal is the snakehead fish, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Channa Marches is ranked 99,081^st in the world and 2^nd in Asian Cooperation Pact for Largest Populations, with 7.83 billion capita.