The Tribe of ChocolateCandle is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Laygo Rylhabo with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service, prohibition of alcohol, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 1.407 billion ChocolateCandleans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Copernicia Theobroma Heartwood. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 14.6%.

The strong ChocolateCandlean economy, worth 87.3 trillion Cocoa beans a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 62,074 Cocoa beans, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 338,451 per year while the poor average 5,836, a ratio of 58.0 to 1.

Acupuncture is routinely prescribed for intravenous drug addicts, religion makes people horny, Qyleko has been named as ChocolateCandle's national religion, and Laygo Rylhabo has just been declared ruler of ChocolateCandle in an international press conference. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. ChocolateCandle's national animal is the green milkweed locust nymph and its national religion is Qyleko.

ChocolateCandle is ranked 139,650^th in the world and 11^th in Chocolate territory for Most Patriotic, with 12.88 flags saluted per person per day.