The Republic of ERNS Sunset Shimmer is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Sunset Shimmer with an even hand, and remarkable for its enslaved workforce, disturbing lack of elderly people, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, devout population of 7.289 billion ERNS Sunset Shimmerians 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 medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shimmerlight. The average income tax rate is 57.2%.

The all-consuming ERNS Sunset Shimmerian economy, worth 725 trillion Bits a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 99,602 Bits, with the richest citizens earning 5.0 times as much as the poorest.

The volume of paperwork used to complete a single environmental assessment defeats the purpose, the government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments, Maths Professor Barbie is the most popular toy for boys and girls alike, and older citizens lament over the loss of law and order. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ERNS Sunset Shimmer's national animal is the Pony, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Church of the Virtual Boy.

ERNS Sunset Shimmer is ranked 248,790^th in the world and 563^rd in Sunset Shimmer for Nudest, with 71.25 cheeks per square mile.