The Republic of Saint Chips Island is a large, orderly nation, notable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, digital currency, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 79 million Saint Chips Islandians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Education, and Industry are also considered important, while International Aid and Spirituality receive no funds. The average income tax rate is 53.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Saint Chips Islandian economy, worth 3.43 trillion marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 43,476 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma, foreign heads of state have taken out restraining orders against Saint Chips Islandian ambassadors, bicyclists are banned from major roads, and postcards from Saint Chips Islandian driving test centres are popular souvenirs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Saint Chips Island's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Saint Chips Island is ranked 89,726^th in the world and 107^th in Lone Wolves United for Most Beautiful Environments, with 580.14 pounds of wildlife per square mile.