The Republic of Rusty shears is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its ban on automobiles, anti-smoking policies, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed population of 3.021 billion Rusty shearsians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 14.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Rusty shearsian economy, worth 153 trillion potatoes a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 50,793 potatoes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Business meetings across the country are interrupted by the sound of squeaking whoopee-cushions, mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field, Rusty shears City's main city thoroughfare has been blocked by a row of leyland cypresses that mysteriously appeared overnight, and there is something rotten in the state of Rusty shears. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Rusty shears's national animal is the rat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rusty shears is ranked 138,519^th in the world and 6,608^th in Lazarus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 61.97 law-abiding acts per hour.