The Revered Topacio Shogunate of Imperial Shaustria is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Empress Erisa with an iron fist, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.84 billion Shaustrians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Topaz. The average income tax rate is 96.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Imperial Shaustrian economy, worth a remarkable 2,420 trillion Imperial Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 223,316 Imperial Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Imperial Shaustrian royals love to remind their siblings who was adopted first, cricket farmers use magnifying glasses to fit every member of their herd with tiny tracking tags, cheap textbooks have replaced coasters at college ragers, and the government has put a kid glove on the invisible hand of the free market. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Imperial Shaustria's national animal is the Dobermann, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Sha Gyros.

Imperial Shaustria is ranked 5,945^th in the world and 4^th in Concord for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 11,476.97 on the Gilded Widget Scale.