The Empire of Chickadonia is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Comrade Paridae the Victorious and Great with an iron fist, and notable for its prohibition of alcohol, ban on automobiles, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 2.507 billion Chickadees are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Poecile City. The average income tax rate is 84.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Chickadonian economy, worth 455 trillion Feathers 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. 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 181,533 Feathers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Epidemiologists happily announce that the reported incidence of depression is close to zero percent, Comrade Paridae the Victorious and Great's relatives have been married into the royal families of foreign nations against their will, children happily laugh and play on their way to school during air-raids, and the nation has a strict 'no marauding undead' law (Chickadonia has found 1 easter egg). Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Chickadonia's national animal is the Chickadee, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Chickadonia is ranked 279,712^th in the world and 10,179^th in Osiris for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 30.63 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.