The Nervous Wreck of Shiminka is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Empress Li Tang Shi with an iron fist, and renowned for its frequent executions, enslaved workforce, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 2.673 billion Shiminkans 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Golden City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 78.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Shiminkan economy, worth 479 trillion Shiminka Dollar and Coins 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 Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 impressive 179,382 Shiminka Dollar and Coins, with the richest citizens earning 8.0 times as much as the poorest.

Sniffer dogs are trained to follow clouds of fruity-smelling vapor, people believe that if you teach a man to fish he won't buy fish from you any more, a nickname of "Doctor Death" probably indicates a decorated war hero, and politicians that report exaggerated crowd sizes for their speeches are dismissed for being delusional. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shiminka's national animal is the Blue-feathered Raven, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is The Worship of the Emperor.

Shiminka is ranked 12,504^th in the world and 1^st in Vulture of War for Most Patriotic, with 58.45 flags saluted per person per day.