The Grand Duchy of Chareest is a titanic, safe nation, renowned for its anti-smoking policies, soft-spoken computers, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 15.434 billion Chareestians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 93.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Chareestian economy, worth a remarkable 1,685 trillion guilders a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 109,231 guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Goldilocks has found a lucrative career as a zoning consultant, calls to prayer are the newest dog whistles, all facts are created equal, and Occam's razor has sliced to pieces any childhood belief in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Chareest's national animal is the emu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Chareest is ranked 311,637^th in the world and 17,054^th in Osiris for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -10.2 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.