The Holy Empire of Shellacking is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 28.057 billion Shellackingians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Spirituality, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 53.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Shellackingian economy, worth 547 trillion Drubbings a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Basket Weaving, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 19,521 Drubbings, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The police force is on a recruitment drive, citizens can be frequently spotted going about their business stark naked, TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, and Harry Potter books are banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shellacking's national animal is the Rat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Shellacking is ranked 35,970^th in the world and 1^st in New Empire of Power for Safest, scoring 107.05 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.