The Holy Realm of Shrive is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Queen-Empress Erzsébet with an iron fist, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, soft-spoken computers, and smutty television. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 11.382 billion Shriven are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Székesfehérvár. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Shriven economy, worth a remarkable 3,331 trillion Császári Koronas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 292,685 Császári Koronas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every week is blindness awareness week, anti-vaxxers claim that injected children are prone to psychotic breaks when they see the 'Queen of Diamonds' playing card, a passport is literally priceless, and camo-patterned plush comfort blankets are standard issue for commandos. Crime is totally unknown. Shrive's national animal is the Turul, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Ősimádat.

Shrive is ranked 17,102^nd in the world and 2^nd in New Genesis for Most Corrupt Governments, with 112.06 kickbacks per hour.