The Empire of Chorica is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The cynical population of 1.481 billion Choricans 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cóparo. The average income tax rate is 69.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Chorican economy, worth 94.6 trillion okas a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 63,896 okas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is using tax revenues to provide jobs for the poor, interest rates mysteriously drop whenever the CBC Governor goes house hunting, Big Agriculture has the government by the nuts, and genocide is seen as a topic best avoided in history lessons. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Chorica's national animal is the Black Falcon, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Chorica is ranked 138,151^st in the world and 2,774^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 70.09 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.