The Empire of United Shiba is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Emperor papa shibe with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 9.065 billion United Shibans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shiban DC. The average income tax rate is 93.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient United Shiban economy, worth a remarkable 1,111 trillion Shiburos a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 122,640 Shiburos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People seem disproportionately distraught when told a museum has a phones-off policy, in musicals everybody's a little bit racist, third world countries are rich in "I Love Shiban DC" t-shirts, and the seats at the back of the parliament are reserved for indigenous ministers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. United Shiba's national animal is the Shiba Inu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Shibe.

United Shiba is ranked 9,774^th in the world and 526^th in Lazarus for Highest Food Quality, scoring 162.25 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.