The Dictatorship of Shuddera is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Vasili Valado with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and strictly enforced bedtime. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 34.726 billion Shudderans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Naumeria. The average income tax rate is 92.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Shudderan economy, worth a remarkable 7,071 trillion multa dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Automobile Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 203,636 multa dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Shudderan foreign aid program is quick to provide starving children with the latest video games, it is illegal to brush crumbs off your clothing outdoors, the derisively named "Morlocks of Moria" futilely demand time in the sun, and every microwave and toaster is being disassembled and probed by inspectors. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shuddera's national animal is the shudderan sloth, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Way of Vasili Valado.

Shuddera is ranked 168,265^th in the world and 4,125^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 301.22 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.