The People's Republic of Chronotopica is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by M Bak with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate population of 3.325 billion Chronotopicans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bakhtin City. The average income tax rate is 94.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Chronotopican economy, worth 377 trillion krons 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 113,665 krons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Grinding bureaucracy has the international wheels of justice turning slowly, sex education has become an intricate maze of stick figures and complex metaphors, people who have never eaten chicken are told it tastes a bit like crocodile, and tradesmen will knock 10% off their fees if customers pay cash. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Chronotopica's national animal is the Kākāpō, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Chronotopica is ranked 301,778^th in the world and 844^th in The Communist Bloc for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 5,796.95 Standard Monetary Units.