The Republic of Shisterdonk is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its digital currency, anti-smoking policies, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 517 million Shisterdonkians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Donkholm. The average income tax rate is 70.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Shisterdonkian economy, worth 39.1 trillion deniers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 75,706 deniers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Leader can be seen doing doughnuts in a new Rambogini, in life full of care there is no time to stop and stare, international television adverts praise the nation as a worker's paradise, and Maxtopian tourists make expensive pilgrimages to Donkholm to enjoy their national art. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shisterdonk's national animal is the Capybara, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Shisterdonk is ranked 12,166^th in the world and 110^th in Europeia for Nicest Citizens, with 29.77 average smiles per day.