The Federation of New Shea is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Mr Met with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and otherworldly petting zoo. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.745 billion New Sheans 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 government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Citi City. The average income tax rate is 92.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving New Shean economy, worth 290 trillion homers a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 105,828 homers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The amount welfare recipients spend on fertilizer has exploded, the government-sponsored autobiography 'A Mr Met For All Seasons' has only been bought by the most loyal of Mr Met's supporters, schools have extensive counseling programs for troubled students, and children crying over dropped ice creams are offered high doses of experimental antidepressants. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Shea's national animal is the rally cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Shea is ranked 9,325^th in the world and 1^st in New York for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 11,540.49 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.