The Dictatorship of Ching Dai is a very large, orderly nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 155 million Ching Daians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 20.1%.

The strong Ching Daian economy, worth 7.33 trillion Brystavias a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Soda Sales. Average income is 47,286 Brystavias, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 138,749 per year while the poor average 12,703, a ratio of 10.9 to 1.

There's no such thing as a safe bet, streakers swamp all public events in order to bare it all, diplomatic missions typically end with a flurry of childish insults, accusations and phlegm, and the military conducts 'training exercises' in prisons. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Ching Dai's national animal is the Dragon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Ching Dai is ranked 71,389^th in the world and 53^rd in United Kingdom for Most Extreme, scoring 27.3 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.