The Co-operative Union of The Charter Commonwealth is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Robert Owen with an even hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.764 billion Chartists are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of London. The average income tax rate is 70.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Chartist economy, worth 148 trillion Labour Notes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. Average income is 53,671 Labour Notes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There has been a rapid increase of noise complaints over the sound of buzzing bees, newly synthesized elements' half-lives are a million times shorter than the time it takes to say their names, the police strictly enforce off-limit zones for tourists, and hordes of unemployed lumberjacks have resorted to cutting down utility poles to satisfy their cravings. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Charter Commonwealth's national animal is the Owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

The Charter Commonwealth is ranked 44,618^th in the world and 43^rd in Socialists for Lowest Crime Rates, with 75.9 law-abiding acts per hour.