The Community of Shark is a mammoth, efficient nation, notable for its zero percent divorce rate, state-planned economy, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed population of 8.921 billion Sharkians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 23.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Sharkian economy, worth 622 trillion marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 69,767 marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Adultery has been made a capital offence, the family summer vacation has become a thing of the past following the introduction of the year-round school year, pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects, and executions often take hours as amateurs attempt to find veins. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shark's national animal is the Shark, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Shark is ranked 54,978^th in the world and 17^th in Safari for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 53,302.39 Standard Monetary Units.