The People's Republic of Shiangono is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by General Secretary Rakoshab Aand with an iron fist, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.566 billion Shiangoes 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 enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Balonsam. The average income tax rate is 75.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Shiangonese economy, worth 60.2 trillion SLT Labor Vouchers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 38,426 SLT Labor Vouchers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There has been a rapid increase of noise complaints over the sound of buzzing bees, nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers, retirement homes are often fitted with luxurious suites, and the "feminist protest" defence is increasingly common for cases of armed robbery. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shiangono's national animal is the Featherless Ethnic Slur, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Shiangono is ranked 75,825^th in the world and 3,881^st in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 68 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.