The Federal Republic of Chatelleux is a small, safe nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, restrictive gun laws, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed population of 32 million Chatelleuxians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 38.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Chatelleuxian economy, worth 1.80 trillion Rubios a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 56,249 Rubios, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children have taken to using semaphore in light of the recent mobile phone ban, looting and pillaging are now considered vital intelligence-gathering activities, money can't buy happiness but it can buy immunity to prosecution, and cases of disease among the civilian population dwindle as civilian population dwindles. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Chatelleux's national animal is the Chatelloix River Wolf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Chatelleux is ranked 132,066^th in the world and 4^th in Vaeura for Most Corrupt Governments, with 6.54 kickbacks per hour.