The Holy Shearing Shed of Mr Zurkidson is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Mr Zurkidson with an iron fist, and renowned for its national health service, public floggings, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 25.514 billion Zurkidsons 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 enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of a sheep-filled bunker. The average income tax rate is 98.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Zurkidsonian economy, worth a remarkable 3,834 trillion zurkons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 150,275 zurkons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's government buildings are remarkable for being ugly concrete boxes, unpackaged foodstuffs rot on store shelves, graverobbers claim they're acting within the interest of 'scientific preservation', and wigged-out hunters report playing croquet with the Queen of Hearts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mr Zurkidson's national animal is the Sheep, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Sheepocracy.

Mr Zurkidson is ranked 275,089^th in the world and 3^rd in Ankh Mauta for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -8.53 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.