Chester Mapleforth first seceded his cul-de-sac from the United Kingdom in the early 1990s, and the first thing he did was to make murder legal.

Chester Mapleforth was exhausted by the modern world. Too much noise and stress. Too many things constantly beeping and ringing, impatient humans demanding attention. When he invents the underwater post-it notes in the late 1980s, a sudden rush of wealth allows him to break his little cul-de-sac away from the United Kingdom. For some terrible, awful reason one of the first things he does is to make murder legal. In 2016 the newly founded village of "Chestersberg" is a thriving community of like minded murderers and lawn enthusiasts.