The Loving Couple of Ship Fan is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Mako with an iron fist, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, pith helmet sales, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.973 billion Ship Fanians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Republic City. The average income tax rate is 79.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ship Fanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,340 trillion dollars 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Information Technology, Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. 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 168,180 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Streaming video is considered to be a myth by most citizens, children fear compulsory visits to their spiritual advisors more than the dentist, the new Really Big Telescope has been praised for presenting pictures of bright dots in unprecedented detail, and the government regularly publishes lengthy reports on its own excessive recordkeeping. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ship Fan's national animal is the dove, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Cards.

Ship Fan is ranked 10,627^th in the world and 5^th in The Free Nations Region for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 10,599.26 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.