The Dominion of Chronic and Violent IBS is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, disturbing lack of elderly people, and punitive income tax rates. The quiet, industrious population of 290 million Irritable Bowel Syndromites have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Colonoscity. The average income tax rate is 66.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Chronic and Violent IBSian economy, worth 22.6 trillion Procals a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Cheese Exports, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 77,780 Procals, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

The entire entry for Chronic and Violent IBS in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the World reads 'mostly harmless', they say that Leader's personal computer is full of naked pictures of the Emperor of Maxtopia, new pilots are regularly reminded that they are more expendable than their planes, and any citizen who cries is immediately assigned a psychiatrist. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Chronic and Violent IBS's national animal is the New Guinea Worm, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Chronic and Violent IBS is ranked 46,336^th in the world and 81^st in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 4,179.56 on the Gilded Widget Scale.