The Dominion of Shifuland is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, lack of airports, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 1.356 billion Shifulandians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, 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 Sumika. The average income tax rate is 46.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Shifulandian economy, worth 166 trillion shifucoins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Information Technology. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 123,071 shifucoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Cold medicines curiously become cheaper when government officials sneeze, it is illegal to carry an umbrella when the official weather forecast predicts a sunny day, there's no weight to modern politics, and diabetics find the contents of their medications hard to stomach. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shifuland's national animal is the Robo Ball, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Shifuland is ranked 195,295^th in the world and 271^st in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Populations, with 1.36 billion capita.