The Empire of Shabingery is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, frequent executions, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 2.013 billion Shabingeryians are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The medium-sized, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 22.5%.

The thriving Shabingeryian economy, worth 137 trillion gabaagools a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 68,280 gabaagools, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 234,254 per year while the poor average 14,607, a ratio of 16.0 to 1.

The public are free to vote for whomever the government wants in office, the national security service are a bunch of crooks, Leader often plays real life games of Tower Defense against hordes of angry villagers, and sanitary products are sold in brown paper at hairdressers' salons. Crime is moderate. Shabingery's national animal is the dying throat warbler, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Shabingery is ranked 124,168^th in the world and 5,112^th in Lazarus for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1,606.69 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.