The Borderlands of Chinookery is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 3.524 billion Chinookeryians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 66.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Chinookeryian economy, worth 205 trillion Bits a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 58,176 Bits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Oil executives can be seen reluctantly cleaning oil-soaked birds, school guidance counselors recommend monastic vows as an alternative to higher education, Leader is described as an everyday person with normal tastes and the usual interests, and giant no-kill traps baited with Bapst Red Ribbon and vintage bicycles have been popping up in back alleys nationwide. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Chinookery's national animal is the Quokka, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Chinookery is ranked 146,961^st in the world and 5,788^th in Balder for Highest Food Quality, scoring 15.86 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.