The United States of Chicago Heights-IL- is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, avowedly heterosexual populace, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.171 billion Chicago Heights-IL-ians 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 medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 70.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Chicago Heights-IL-ian economy, worth 694 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 166,619 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Guide dogs for the blind have been seen using government websites, new pilots are regularly reminded that they are more expendable than their planes, the question "please would you...?" is usually laden with passive aggression, and half-submerged and flooded seaside hotels are technically still next to the beach. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Chicago Heights-IL-'s national animal is the bald eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Chicago Heights-IL- is ranked 18,096^th in the world and 42^nd in Aerospace for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 7,537.54 on the Gilded Widget Scale.