The Republic of Shachms is a colossal, safe nation, notable for its otherworldly petting zoo, anti-smoking policies, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 3.117 billion Shachmsians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 95.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Shachmsian economy, worth 585 trillion bitcoins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 187,890 bitcoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Family isn't who you're born with but who you abandon in foreign countries, jailbreaking is the best-selling book category of the year, it's a long jump to get onto the housing ladder, and foreign casinos have trouble paying fans who bet on the triumph of the Shachms City Foxes against long odds. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shachms's national animal is the fox, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Shachms is ranked 321,373^rd in the world and 1,712^th in the Plains of Perdition for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring -15.38 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.