The Empire of Chair Co is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 496 million Charians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Thronestown. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 21.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Chairdaic economy, worth 60.2 trillion Corporate Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 121,426 Corporate Credits, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 638,633 per year while the poor average 12,323, a ratio of 51.8 to 1.

Baby boys who pick up pink crayons are sent to a psychiatric ward, whenever pilots have to bail out the government bails out their company, prison libraries are being replaced with interrogation chambers, and the police double as repo men. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Chair Co's national animal is the Chair Horned Moose, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Chair Co is ranked 211,835^th in the world and 734^th in 10000 Islands for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -1.71 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.