The Republic of ERNS Sunset Shimmer is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Sunset Shimmer with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The devout population of 7.521 billion ERNS Sunset Shimmerians 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 medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shimmerlight. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 58.9%.

The frighteningly efficient ERNS Sunset Shimmerian economy, worth 790 trillion Bits a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 105,051 Bits, with the richest citizens earning 6.8 times as much as the poorest.

Every diamond ring sold is accompanied by a twenty-five page analysis and a waiver, weighted heels are added to military boots to ensure diminutive celebrities meet minimum requirements, formerly fertile fields are being leached dry of nutrients by intensive farming, and military minds worry that 'the blue screen of death' on brand new operating systems may be a literal description. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ERNS Sunset Shimmer's national animal is the Pony, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Church of the Virtual Boy.

ERNS Sunset Shimmer is ranked 86,465^th in the world and 604^th in Sunset Shimmer for Largest Black Market, with 4.05 trillion Standard Monetary Units.