The People's Republic of Equatorial Shawawa is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 388 million Equatorial Shawawans 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, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 63.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Equatorial Shawawan economy, worth 8.97 trillion Equatorial Shawawain Dirhams a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 23,128 Equatorial Shawawain Dirhams, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Organ donation is compulsory, all major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras, when shaking hands with foreign leaders Leader wears an armoured gauntlet, and military spending recently hit a new high. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Equatorial Shawawa's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Equatorial Shawawa is ranked 164,926^th in the world and 3,920^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 204.77 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.