The Republic of Chevodonia is a gargantuan, cultured nation, renowned for its teetotalling pirates, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 19.035 billion Chevodonians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Chevona. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Chevodonian economy, worth a remarkable 2,652 trillion starling orbs a year, is highly specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 139,340 starling orbs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Being Leader has been voted one of the top ten most dangerous jobs, criminals rejoice in the streets as the entire police force is sent away on a training retreat, short shrift is being given to applications for political asylum from illegal immigrants, and weekly religious services often resemble campaign rallies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Chevodonia's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Chevodonia is ranked 18,316^th in the world and 550^th in Osiris for Largest Populations, with 19.0 billion capita.