The Grand Duchy of Roastedchestnuts is a small, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, devout population of 32 million Roastedchestnutsians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 52.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Roastedchestnutsian economy, worth 1.02 trillion chestnuts 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, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, Basket Weaving, and Pizza Delivery. 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 31,730 chestnuts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Editorials that criticize the government are legally obligated to display the "pants on fire" warning, drill sergeants yell in the ears of bespectacled nerds in cybermilitary "reboot camps", Leader has taken to wearing medal-adorned military uniform in all public appearances, and universities spend millions cultivating ivy on their buildings. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Roastedchestnuts's national animal is the oak tree, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Roastedchestnuts is ranked 99,979^th in the world and 9^th in Captialism for Most Extensive Civil Rights, with 61.82 Martin Luther King, Jr. Units.