The Shield of Chibi Croissant is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, democratic, devout population of 2.063 billion Chibi Croissantians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Minos. The average income tax rate is 17.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Chibi Croissantian economy, worth 111 trillion ★★★★★s 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 Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. Average income is 54,078 ★★★★★s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Lawyers spend as much time preparing their make-up as they do their briefs, the nation's soldiers often believe they're in the Air Force, election ballot papers are so long that unused ones are recycled as toilet roll, and the sun rises an hour later on border communities. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Chibi Croissant's national animal is the Forte, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Chibi Croissant is ranked 28,815^th in the world and 1^st in Penguin Logistics for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 6,558.59 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.