The Republic of Chicoria is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by High Overlord Glyce with an iron fist, and notable for its vat-grown people, sprawling nuclear power plants, and compulsory gun ownership. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.467 billion Chicorians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Endive. The average income tax rate is 28.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Chicorian economy, worth a remarkable 1,889 trillion nitroes 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, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. 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 amazing 223,132 nitroes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

With increasingly clear skies nobody seems to mind the electricity bill going through the roof, it is a common belief that a sport isn't sport if there are no decapitations, consumption of cat memes has skyrocketed, and stone wrist watches that weigh 20lb are the latest trend. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Chicoria's national animal is the coyote, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Violetism.

Chicoria is ranked 2,635^th in the world and 94^th in Osiris for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 26,467.41 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.