The Community of Salia Shin Gan is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Fat John Bernthal with an even hand, and renowned for its state-planned economy, anti-smoking policies, and national health service. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.301 billion Shins are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rick Ross. The average income tax rate is 74.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Salia Shin Ganian economy, worth 55.4 trillion Meltoons 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, highly specialized black market in Trout Farming, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. 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 42,598 Meltoons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Late night talk show hosts are having a field day over Fat John Bernthal's questionably sane new coalition partners, the government frequently panders to parents with boutique tax credits, the word "alcohol" is a trauma trigger for children as young as five, and this year's televised Budget Forecast has been cancelled because there was already one last year. Crime is totally unknown. Salia Shin Gan's national animal is the Kiwi, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Salia Shin Gan is ranked 300,777^th in the world and 10^th in Vaagot Land for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring -10.94 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.