The Imperium of Chalybea is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Valerius Severus with an iron fist, and notable for its otherworldly petting zoo, soft-spoken computers, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 25.3 billion Chalybeans 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ferrum. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Chalybean economy, worth a remarkable 9,755 trillion Testimonium Laboris a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an amazing 385,592 Testimonium Laboris, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Chalybeans have been enjoying a recent boost in civil rights as the government continues to clamp down on emigration, the nation is currently revamping its entire education system, the regional delicacy of chocolate bombes is deadlier than an unexploded bomb, and undergrads find their professors' mushroom experiments less psychedelic than expected. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Chalybea's national animal is the Homo Sapiens, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Aristeianism.

Chalybea is ranked 2,616^th in the world and 7^th in Fifth Empire for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 11,000.53 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.