The Endless Food Preparations of The Chef of the Bar is a mammoth, cultured nation, remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, public floggings, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 6.324 billion Potential Ingredients are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The tiny government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Spiceville. The average income tax rate is 9.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Chef of the Barian economy, worth 514 trillion Cooked Foods a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Soda Sales industry, with major contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 81,414 Cooked Foods, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

The government has enacted freedom of information, decaying farm hamlets have twice the representation of major urban areas, the suicide rate mysteriously skyrockets during census years, and stray dogs and children root through the trash for snacks. Crime, especially youth-related, is a serious problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. The Chef of the Bar's national animal is the Ready to Cook Animals, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The Chef of the Bar is ranked 85,819^th in the world and 271^st in 10000 Islands for Highest Average Incomes, with 81,414.75 Standard Monetary Units.