The Ricky Spanish of Shibutani is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Daniel with an iron fist, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, daily referendums, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 9.477 billion Shibutanians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of MAYA. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 55.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Shibutanian economy, worth a remarkable 4,973 trillion Bitcoins a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is a breathtaking 524,784 Bitcoins, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,712,590 per year while the poor average 120,970, a ratio of 14.2 to 1.

The "blue screen of death" forces many trials to be either aborted or restarted, the government has cut its subsidies for all special interest groups, governments opposing Shibutani are beset by rebels, and small shoes often wash up on the beach. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Shibutani's national animal is the cow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Church of the Cosmic Skull.

Shibutani is ranked 4,794^th in the world and 215^th in The North Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 15,031.6 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.