The Empire of Shockmatizagenate is a very large, efficient nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 276 million Shockmatizagenatars 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 53.6%.

The powerhouse Shockmatizagabigus economy, worth 20.4 trillion Rackashates a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Furniture Restoration, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 74,078 Rackashates, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 217,044 per year while the poor average 19,942, a ratio of 10.9 to 1.

The only things written in the stars are arrest warrants for astrologers, human tissue is grown in vats as a delicacy as well as for transplants, the nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies, and a tax exemption has created a new hunger for octogenarian millionaires dating women 60 years their younger. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shockmatizagenate's national animal is the Legged dunkleosteus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Shockmatizagenate is ranked 67,219^th in the world and 359^th in Europeia for Most Developed, scoring 71.66 on the Human Development Index.