The Imperium of Chalybea is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Valerius Severus with an iron fist, and notable for its compulsory military service, anti-smoking policies, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 25.173 billion Chalybeans 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, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ferrum. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Chalybean economy, worth a remarkable 9,620 trillion Testimonium Laboris a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an amazing 382,171 Testimonium Laboris, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates, meat-eating is frowned upon, when shaking hands with foreign leaders Valerius Severus wears an armoured gauntlet, and the government is constantly producing new maps to accommodate the continual renaming of cities. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Chalybea's national animal is the Homo Sapiens, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Aristeianism.

Chalybea is ranked 191,754^th in the world and 141^st in Fifth Empire for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring zero on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.