The Republic of Sharafi is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its smutty television, sprawling nuclear power plants, and soft-spoken computers. The compassionate, democratic population of 758 million Sharafians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lamarion. The average income tax rate is 69.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Sharafian economy, worth 88.2 trillion kronor a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 116,363 kronor, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Leader has just been declared ruler of Sharafi in an international press conference, a government program is underway to revitalize Sharafi's beaches, student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned Doveball fields, and nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers. Crime is totally unknown. Sharafi's national animal is the Dove, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Sharafi is ranked 51,862^nd in the world and 1,269^th in the South Pacific for Most Efficient Economies, scoring 90.67 on the Krugman-Greenspan Business Outlook Index.