The People's Republic of Cheteire is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its anti-smoking policies, suspicion of poets, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 738 million Cheteans 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, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Brynnsville. The average income tax rate is 81.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Cheteirean economy, worth 40.0 trillion ruldes 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 Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Information Technology. Average income is 54,155 ruldes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voting is compulsory, citizens are frequently searched for illegal weapons, science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous, and the sparkling rainbow has become a symbol of far-right extremism. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cheteire's national animal is the dove, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Cheteire is ranked 52,635^th in the world and 555^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 3,730.58 on the Gilded Widget Scale.