The Free Land of Shnockeruntast is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 621 million Shnockeruntastians 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 relatively small, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 17.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Shnockeruntastian economy, worth 32.5 trillion dollars 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, broadly diversified black market in Basket Weaving, Woodchip Exports, 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 52,283 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Government theft from poor artists to give to rich allies has been dubbed the "reverse Robin Hood" policy, kids are told they can be whoever they want to be when they grow up, local government operates tolls on every village road, and small children pause apologies for their misdeeds to ask what fiscal insolvency actually is. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. Shnockeruntast's national animal is the chicken, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Shnockeruntast is ranked 65,853^rd in the world and 1,089^th in The East Pacific for Most Corrupt Governments, with 28.11 kickbacks per hour.