The Kingdom of Shrime is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Emmil Chandlersen with an even hand, and renowned for its national health service, pith helmet sales, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 2.388 billion Shrimeans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of peacock mines. The average income tax rate is 36.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Shrimean economy, worth 120 trillion Yickos a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 50,285 Yickos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Single celebrities have to repeatedly prove their chastity to avoid being married off to infatuated fans, turning eighteen is often referred to as the 'Age of Aquarius', scientists earn more grant money for reproducing old experiments than trying anything new, and the nation's politicians are acknowledged as the most polite in the region to the dismay of comedians everywhere. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shrime's national animal is the hedgehog, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Shrime is ranked 209,882^nd in the world and 322^nd in The League for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 284.72 on the Gilded Widget Scale.