The Democratic Confederacy of Shearoa is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by The Confederal Council with a fair hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 1.298 billion Shearoans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 89.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Shearoan economy, worth 135 trillion Nones 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 led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 104,571 Nones, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Dog breeding has been banned in accordance with recent animal experimentation laws, from the highest mountain to the deepest cave - one can always count on finding a good cell signal in Shearoa, the long arm of the law possesses a rather slow hand, and The Confederal Council's media campaigns take a hiatus around exam week. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shearoa's national animal is the Ultradama, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is None.

Shearoa is ranked 8,466^th in the world and 216^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,758.42 pounds of wildlife per square mile.