The Grand Duchy of Roastedchestnuts is a small, safe nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, devout population of 20 million Roastedchestnutsians, 15 million of whom are zombies, are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 52.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The weak Roastedchestnutsian economy, worth 635 billion chestnuts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, Basket Weaving, and Pizza Delivery. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 31,730 chestnuts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Editorials that criticize the government are legally obligated to display the "pants on fire" warning, drill sergeants yell in the ears of bespectacled nerds in cybermilitary "reboot camps", Leader has taken to wearing medal-adorned military uniform in all public appearances, and universities spend millions cultivating ivy on their buildings. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Roastedchestnuts's national animal is the oak tree, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Roastedchestnuts is ranked 144,747^th in the world and 11^th in Captialism for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring 3,747.79 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.