The People's Republic of Shigastan is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its digital currency, public floggings, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.394 billion Shigastanis are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Komsomolsk-na-Volga（Once Astrakhan）. The average income tax rate is 73.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Shigastanian economy, worth 332 trillion Shigastani rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Trout Farming, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 138,814 Shigastani rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Concert halls sport signs proclaiming "No Shorts, Sandals or Swastikas", the Party has more splits than a yo-yo dieter's trousers, Brancalandian Brie isn't available anywhere in Shigastan, and primetime re-runs of The Black and White Minstrel Show are a critical hit. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shigastan's national animal is the Shigastani Goat, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Shigastan is ranked 136,951^st in the world and 3^rd in Planetary Union of Earth for Most World Assembly Endorsements, with zero valid endorsements.