The Blue Dreamer of Chimes is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Queen Eloise with an even hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, humorless, devout population of 10.449 billion Chimesians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Welfare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Chimes City. The average income tax rate is 93.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Chimesian economy, worth a remarkable 1,030 trillion winds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Soda Sales, and Gambling. Average income is 98,620 winds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Claiming that "my cousin said it was legal" is a common courtroom defense, the number of children one can have is restricted by law, panicking criminals no longer flush contraband down the toilet, and the words 'private' and 'enterprise' must never appear in the same sentence. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Chimes's national animal is the chime, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is a major religion.

Chimes is ranked 15,561^st in the world and 331^st in the Rejected Realms for Most Popular Tourist Destinations, with 1,480.57 Tourists Per Hour.