The Colony of China Pattern Island is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, devout population of 2.365 billion China Pattern Islanders have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Spirituality, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 43.4%.

The strong China Pattern Island economy, worth 148 trillion Republic of China dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 62,703 Republic of China dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 179,523 per year while the poor average 17,434, a ratio of 10.3 to 1.

Droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, sex changes are routinely performed at China Pattern Island's hospitals, war criminals are given full state funerals, and the military perceives nations hit by natural disasters as "easy pickings". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. China Pattern Island's national animal is the whale, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Confucianism.

China Pattern Island is ranked 194,205^th in the world and 9^th in Polychrome Archipelago for Smartest Citizens, with 24.95 quips per hour.