The Republic of Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 74 is a colossal, genial nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, prohibition of alcohol, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 5.349 billion Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 74ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 67.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 74ian economy, worth 500 trillion Bits a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 93,649 Bits, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 444,335 per year while the poor average 11,647, a ratio of 38.1 to 1.

Soldiers' positions are given away by the glint of their bayonets, school uniforms are compulsory, a blood-red mark on the doorframe means a building must be passed over for destruction, and fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 74's national animal is the Pony.

Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 74 is ranked 206,486^th in the world and 475^th in Sunset Shimmer for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -3.46 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.