The United Kingdom of of Shabandra is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by High Warden Azain Noctis XIX with an iron fist, and remarkable for its smutty television, zero percent divorce rate, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 13.883 billion Shabandranitians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hemlock. The average income tax rate is 77.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Shabandranitian economy, worth a remarkable 3,147 trillion Onyx Crownes a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 226,686 Onyx Crownes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Shabandranitians are regularly fired for looking at MyFace during their lunch breaks, annulments are on the rise as couples discover their ancestors were born in the same hospitals, begun the Clone Wars have, and it is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shabandra's national animal is the Flying Buck, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is The Eternal Loom.

Shabandra is ranked 8,701^st in the world and 6^th in Greater Brutesia for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 6,104.35 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.