The Republic of Chipalandia is a mid-sized, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 62 million chipis are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Defense, with Education, Administration, and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Spirituality and International Aid receive no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.6%.

The thriving Chipalandian economy, worth 5.24 trillion Moeda Chipis a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is 84,463 Moeda Chipis, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 316,559 per year while the poor average 15,758, a ratio of 20.1 to 1.

People are bored of easy crossword puzzles, Big Agriculture has the government by the nuts, companies flee the nation rather than pay their fair share of taxes, and listless juries are assembled for the simplest of court cases. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Chipalandia's national animal is the Chipa-Grande, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Chipalandia is ranked 189,150^th in the world and 80^th in Portugal for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -1.41 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.