The Republic of Che Island Rea is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, restrictive gun laws, and suspicion of poets. The quiet, industrious population of 11.885 billion Che Island Reans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 39.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Che Island Rean economy, worth 422 trillion marks a year, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 35,571 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People accuse the government of being in bed with Big Safety, tech-mad citizens think that the laser-powered bread-slicer uPhone App is the coolest thing since sliced bread, the media have begun calling the government treasury "Leader's stash", and Leader is too busy listening to praise to get any work done. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Che Island Rea's national animal is the dolphin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Che Island Rea is ranked 158,595^th in the world and 3^rd in The Commonwealth Federation for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 489.71 on the Gilded Widget Scale.