The People's Republic of Sheathimony is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by General Secretary Vladimir Ilyich with an even hand, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, smutty television, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 5.19 billion Sheathenizens are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sheathimigrad. The average income tax rate is 97.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Sheathimonyian economy, worth 748 trillion Sheathimoneys 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 Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 144,290 Sheathimoneys, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Business meetings across the country are interrupted by the sound of squeaking whoopee-cushions, stranded mountaineers can watch livestreamed footage of their rescues, the sound of wooden legs echo throughout Sheathimony after the recent introduction of the Foot Tax, and wars of expansion are described as "peacekeeping operations". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sheathimony's national animal is the Sheathimonkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The People.

Sheathimony is ranked 5,136^th in the world and 115^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Beautiful Environments, with 2,314.26 pounds of wildlife per square mile.