The Republic of Shennith is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and suspicion of poets. The cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.108 billion Shennithians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 58.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Shennithian economy, worth 519 trillion marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 126,549 marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Ministers are now allowed to put suggestions in the governmental suggestion box, public projects are synonymous with yawn-inducing conformity, the standardised national curriculum requires that all-male classes be taught why they have periods, and concert halls sport signs proclaiming "No Shorts, Sandals or Swastikas". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shennith's national animal is the panther, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Shennith is ranked 20,182^nd in the world and 7^th in Cainitium for Lowest Crime Rates, with 89.57 law-abiding acts per hour.