The United Socialist States of Chevelland is a mammoth, safe nation, remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, daily referendums, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate population of 9.144 billion Chevellandians 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 Administration, Environment, and Education. The average income tax rate is 76.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Chevellandian economy, worth 586 trillion marks 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 mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 64,168 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Anyone who takes out the recycling expects a tax break, UFO sightings are listed daily in the morning news, chewing tree bark proves to have limited value during childbirth, and pranking is an art form. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Chevelland's national animal is the unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Chevelland is ranked 90,423^rd in the world and 712^th in the Rejected Realms for Lowest Crime Rates, with 69.35 law-abiding acts per hour.