The Community College of Shasta College is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its burgeoning horse population. The hard-working population of 1.077 billion Shastans 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 relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Redding. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.1%.

The very strong Shastan economy, worth 71.1 trillion dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 66,004 dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 196,252 per year while the poor average 17,404, a ratio of 11.3 to 1.

The tenet of free speech is held dear, seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma, people are bored of easy crossword puzzles, and Shasta College has designated Redding as its capital city. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Shasta College's national animal is the horse.

Shasta College is ranked 231,688^th in the world and 229^th in California Colleges and Universities for Largest Governments, scoring 9.59 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.