The Armed Republic of Sharkzz is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 205 million Sharkzzians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 31.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Sharkzzian economy, worth 7.97 trillion Teeths 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, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Information Technology, 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 38,863 Teeths, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens volunteer for tax audits to avoid the 80-page Practical Assessment Survey Tool On Religions, anyone who sneezes at border crossings is turned away, bins outnumber trees in city parks, and proper policy proposals prerequire professional peer-reviewed papers. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, thanks to a capable police force. Sharkzz's national animal is the Shark, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Sharkzz is ranked 246,866^th in the world and 27^th in Cutie Pookies for Largest Populations, with 205 million capita.