The Constitutional Monarchy of Chithal is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Chancellor Trahaearn Ceurd with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 21.732 billion Chithalians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Erothi. The average income tax rate is 76.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Chithalian economy, worth a remarkable 2,021 trillion Shurs 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, quite specialized black market in Uranium Mining, Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. 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 93,031 Shurs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Protests are illegal, the nation's counterintelligence budget is all up in the air, community theaters are known for their bawdy renditions of 'Springtime for Chancellor Trahaearn Ceurd', and time flies when you're not having fun. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Chithal's national animal is the crocodile, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Violetism.

Chithal is ranked 213,696^th in the world and 21^st in Valaryia for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 30.92 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.