The Republic of Port Sherry is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by Sherry Baby with an even hand, and remarkable for its frequent executions, anti-smoking policies, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 14.947 billion Port Sherryians are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Port City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 15.7%.

The thriving Port Sherryian economy, worth 811 trillion pounds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is 54,325 pounds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 165,951 per year while the poor average 13,783, a ratio of 12.0 to 1.

Pro-wrestling bouts open with a legal disclaimer insisting that any violence is guaranteed 100% faked, the Port Sherryian cut of Apocalypse Now sets the helicopter scene to eerie silence, advertisers scramble to sponsor the broadcast of Sherry Baby's most personal functions, and commuters are denied boarding for attempting to bring packed lunches onto trains. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a well-funded police force. Port Sherry's national animal is the tiger, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Falsetto.

Port Sherry is ranked 293,420^th in the world and 1^st in South for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring -5.48 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.