The Borderlands of Chierico is a titanic, efficient nation, notable for its parental licensing program, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-working, humorless, devout population of 24.658 billion Chiericoans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 31.7%.

The powerhouse Chiericoan economy, worth a remarkable 1,934 trillion $$s a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 78,448 $$s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Suit-clad businessmen have been taking advantage of the relaxed welfare qualifications by shopping with food stamps, gun-wielding gangsters sometimes deal death from as far as ten paces away, citizens must have a license to operate a computer, and students who refuse to pray are expelled from school. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Chierico's national animal is the laughing swordfish.

Chierico is ranked 78,268^th in the world and 2^nd in Islamofascism for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 1,651.9 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.