The Federation of Shirkhazia is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, enslaved workforce, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 116 million Shirkhazians 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 relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Defense, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 16.1%.

The strong Shirkhazian economy, worth 6.23 trillion kronor a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Basket Weaving, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 53,744 kronor, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 161,959 per year while the poor average 13,903, a ratio of 11.6 to 1.

Getting an autograph has become harder than ever, torture is commonly used to extract information from suspected criminals, murderers frequently escape punishment by claiming they were protecting their honour, and modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Shirkhazia's national animal is the tiger, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Shirkhazia is ranked 171,412^th in the world and 3,773^rd in the South Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 59.32 law-abiding acts per hour.