The Federal Republic of Shuthare is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Secretary General Totoriss Torvesach with an iron fist, and renowned for its otherworldly petting zoo, fear of technology, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 15.781 billion Shuthareans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ilan. The average income tax rate is 73.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Shutharean economy, worth a remarkable 1,736 trillion Ealeis a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Pizza Delivery, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 110,012 Ealeis, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens try to ignore gruesome pictures of decaying teeth printed on their soda cans, the roads are notorious throughout the region for their peril, the government prefers to leave the past buried, and women have a strange proclivity for dressing up as caped weasels. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shuthare's national animal is the sea urchin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Christianity.

Shuthare is ranked 11,745^th in the world and 88^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 9,093.89 on the Gilded Widget Scale.