The Empire of Old Chimore is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, ubiquitous missile silos, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 1.782 billion Old Chimoreans 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 relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 16.2%.

The all-consuming Old Chimorean economy, worth 187 trillion K'ihs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 104,951 K'ihs, with the richest citizens earning 7.0 times as much as the poorest.

The request to "give us our daily bread" can only be fulfilled six days out of seven, tax assessment offices double as polling stations, commuters are denied boarding for attempting to bring packed lunches onto trains, and gun-wielding gangsters sometimes deal death from as far as ten paces away. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Old Chimore's national animal is the Cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Old Chimore is ranked 103,568^th in the world and 28^th in The Archipelago States for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 1,927.5 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.