The Corporate Empire of Chair Co is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its flagrant waste-dumping, frequent executions, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 597 million Charians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Thronestown. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 23.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Chairdaic economy, worth 78.1 trillion Corporate Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 130,879 Corporate Credits, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 428,506 per year while the poor average 30,024, a ratio of 14.3 to 1.

Teens are voting on which C-List pop star will be next to be evicted from the opera house, only 'organics' are permitted to be citizens, Chair Co has been greatly criticised for its isolationist policies, and eight-year-olds can be seen lighting up in public areas. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Chair Co's national animal is the Chair Horned Moose, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Chair Co is ranked 24,777^th in the world and 269^th in 10000 Islands for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 247.88 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.