The Democratic States of Outer Chincel is a small, genial nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 32 million Outer Chincelians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Welfare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 67.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Outer Chincelian economy, worth 474 billion pounds 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 mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 14,836 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Social order requires citizens to be afraid to ask questions, in life full of care there is no time to stop and stare, praying before a battle is a court-martial offence, and the nation has opened its arms to an influx of refugees. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Outer Chincel's national animal is the squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Outer Chincel is ranked 47,263^rd in the world and 1^st in Thalassian for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 4,794.78 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.