The Federation of Shirkhazia is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its enslaved workforce, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 221 million Shirkhazians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Defense, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 15.7%.

The strong Shirkhazian economy, worth 12.0 trillion kronor a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Trout Farming, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 54,212 kronor, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 163,370 per year while the poor average 14,025, a ratio of 11.6 to 1.

Getting an autograph has become harder than ever, torture is commonly used to extract information from suspected criminals, murderers frequently escape punishment by claiming they were protecting their honour, and modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Shirkhazia's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Shirkhazia is ranked 110,148^th in the world and 2,063^rd in the South Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,157.34 on the Gilded Widget Scale.