The Republic of Aerial Shroud is a mammoth, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, hard-working, devout population of 9.303 billion Aerial Shroudians 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 36.6%.

The strong Aerial Shroudian economy, worth 529 trillion guilders a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Soda Sales, and Gambling. Average income is 56,941 guilders, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.3 times as much as the poorest.

Increasing inclusiveness is a sign of the times, Merry Birthday is a popular protest song despite the risk of fines and royalty dues, restaurants are required to specify whether their toilet paper was made in Aerial Shroud, and political clichés like "band-aid solutions" and "adrenaline shots to the economy" are headed for the dumpster. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aerial Shroud's national animal is the wolf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Aerial Shroud is ranked 125,601^st in the world and 1,050^th in the Rejected Realms for Highest Poor Incomes, with 26,027.53 Standard Monetary Units.