The Federal Republic of Shishke is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Dante Meinstar with an even hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, triple-decker prams, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 7.054 billion Shishkians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The tiny, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Amor. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.6%.

The powerhouse Shishkean economy, worth 455 trillion Shishkian Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 64,564 Shishkian Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 458,898 per year while the poor average 3,011, a ratio of 152 to 1.

Schoolyard sandboxes resemble ashtrays due to the large number of cigarette butts, drugs containing the compound "oleum de serpens" are being sold to cancer patients, Dante Meinstar has just been declared ruler of Shishke in an international press conference, and Shishkanism has been named as Shishke's national religion. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Shishke's national animal is the Horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Shishkanism.

Shishke is ranked 257,899^th in the world and 16^th in Aelstun for Lowest Crime Rates, with 47.47 law-abiding acts per hour.