The Loving Couple of Shipping Fan- is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Pu with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 6.68 billion Shipping Fan-ians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Spirit World. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 72.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Shipping Fan-ian economy, worth 959 trillion dollars a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 143,613 dollars, with the richest citizens earning 9.5 times as much as the poorest.

The government maintains that belief brings greater security than money or a roof, the skeletons of lost tourists litter the ground of the Great Shipping Fan-ian Desert, sweet-toothed Shipping Fan-ians have been left penniless by the VAT on candy, and planespotters are emigrating in droves. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shipping Fan-'s national animal is the dove, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Cards.

Shipping Fan- is ranked 248,346^th in the world and 60^th in Greater Dienstad for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 45.7 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.