The Empire of Shabingery is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, irreverence towards religion, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 2.26 billion Shabingeryians are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The medium-sized, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 22.4%.

The thriving Shabingeryian economy, worth 154 trillion gabaagools a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 68,387 gabaagools, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 234,620 per year while the poor average 14,630, a ratio of 16.0 to 1.

The national security service are a bunch of crooks, Leader often plays real life games of Tower Defense against hordes of angry villagers, sanitary products are sold in brown paper at hairdressers' salons, and government theft from poor artists to give to rich allies has been dubbed the "reverse Robin Hood" policy. Crime is moderate. Shabingery's national animal is the dying throat warbler, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Shabingery is ranked 254,969^th in the world and 11,742^nd in Lazarus for Most Pacifist, with 25.12 cheeks turned per day.