The Shadowed Shores of Chipoli is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Ilya Romanov with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, national health service, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 8.889 billion Chipolians, 7.601 billion of whom are zombies, 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Chipolia. The average income tax rate is 76.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Chipolian economy, worth a remarkable 1,014 trillion Rupans a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 101,967 Rupans, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Garden stores are not allowed to sell water butts, large areas of Chipoli are not accessible by the public, major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day, and people reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Chipoli's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

Chipoli is ranked 165,311^th in the world and 2,266^th in The North Pacific for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring 2,924.43 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.