The Socialist Federal Republic of Chelysagrad is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its otherworldly petting zoo, ubiquitous missile silos, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 705 million Chelysagrans 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Chelysagrad. The average income tax rate is 77.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Chelysagran economy, worth 12.7 trillion Silver Dollars 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 Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 18,003 Silver Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Loudmouthed journalists are given the chop, people cower in fear when Leader looks at them, the examiners who examine examiners are being examined by examiners, and creating cardboard imitations of missiles is a new top-secret military project. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Chelysagrad's national animal is the Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Chelysagrad is ranked 236,051^st in the world and 361^st in Bozarkia for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -2.68 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.