The Ancient Cetarium of Shinrogia is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Cetari Alaric Shinrog II with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, parental licensing program, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 16.098 billion Shinrogians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Talory. The average income tax rate is 95.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Shinrogian economy, worth a remarkable 3,056 trillion Tanyrs a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 189,897 Tanyrs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

The government props up questionable pizza establishments in the name of health, hundreds of sailors ride the good ship Cetari Alaric Shinrog II day after day, there's more vermin than ever on the metro, and rugby players that knock each other over always stop to make sure the other fellow is okay. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shinrogia's national animal is the Gryphon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Dredryism.

Shinrogia is ranked 6,859^th in the world and 46^th in Forest for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 487.29 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.