The The Commune of Shrute Empire is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Dwight Shrute with an iron fist, and renowned for its state-planned economy, hatred of cheese, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 2.566 billion Peasants are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Scranton. The average income tax rate is 81.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Shrute Empirean economy, worth 181 trillion Shrute Bucks 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 large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, and Trout Farming. 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 70,605 Shrute Bucks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Environmental protestors are being rounded up and taken away in sinister black vans as a massive land development campaign gets underway, reinventing the wheel is a favourite pastime of Shrute Empirean weapons designers, the nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies, and dog breeding has been banned in accordance with recent animal experimentation laws. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shrute Empire's national animal is the Bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Shrute Empire is ranked 27,157^th in the world and 1^st in The Sphincter Republic for Lowest Crime Rates, with 84.5 law-abiding acts per hour.