The Republic of Chusque is a mid-sized, efficient nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, avant-garde cinema, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 79 million Chusqueas are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 59.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Chusquean economy, worth 5.06 trillion Baocoes a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 63,996 Baocoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

In-cite-ment never happens at tea parties, the airship business has been driven out of the country by strict regulations and high fines, the government runs a surplus by selling its citizens, and feuilletons can only be deciphered with a Galliennais dictionary. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Chusque's national animal is the Grey Cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Chusque is ranked 79,662^nd in the world and 40^th in Flanelistan for Most Developed, scoring 67.52 on the Human Development Index.