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The Christmas Ascendancy of Chernistiv is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Emperor Sh'Varge with an iron fist, and remarkable for its parental licensing program, strictly enforced bedtime, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.844 billion Chernistivians 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 prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order and Administration are also considered important, while Welfare and International Aid receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Core. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 90.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Chernistivian economy, worth a remarkable 1,256 trillion Energy Credits a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 259,480 Energy Credits, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 756,944 per year while the poor average 70,284, a ratio of 10.8 to 1.

The military invades any neighboring nation with the gall to criticize its policies, petitions to the government are being used to insulate politicians' office walls, the government is purchasing vast amounts of palm oil for plastics production, and rabbits are known to spontaneously explode without warning. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Chernistiv's national animal is the Worker Ant, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is the Imperial Cult.

Chernistiv is ranked 30,538^th in the world and 17^th in Fifth Empire for Most Extreme, scoring 39.56 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.