The Republic of Shumikhinsky District is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, lack of airports, and public floggings. The hard-working, cynical population of 570 million Shumikhinsky Districtians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 53.8%.

The all-consuming Shumikhinsky Districtian economy, worth 51.6 trillion Ducats a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 90,475 Ducats, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 397,341 per year while the poor average 12,953, a ratio of 30.7 to 1.

Politicians bribe ten-year-old geniuses to sit their aptitude tests, school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp, crime is on the rise as online youths compete to vlog the most shocking scenes of violence, and university admissions staff are blindfolded to prevent accidental bias. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shumikhinsky District's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Shumikhinsky District is ranked 250,570^th in the world and 489^th in Novaya Zemlya for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.