The Republic of Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 31 is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, ubiquitous missile silos, and frequent executions. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 5.364 billion Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 31ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 70.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 31ian economy, worth 407 trillion Bits 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 slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, Furniture Restoration, and Woodchip Exports. 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 75,887 Bits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

It is well recognised that you can't sustain communism without a bit of spirit, builders across Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 31 are blocked up with orders for new public loos, programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours, and 'Ponynado 6: You Gotta Be Kidding Me' is this summer's top-grossing movie. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 31's national animal is the Pony, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 31 is ranked 87,597^th in the world and 497^th in Sunset Shimmer for Most Corrupt Governments, with 18.2 kickbacks per hour.