The Imperial Japanese Navy ship of Shimakaze is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Captain Sakura Ayane with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, frequent executions, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 4.833 billion Shimakazeans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The tiny, well-organized government prioritizes Welfare, although Education, Defense, and Law & Order are also considered important, while Environment receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of IJN Shimakaze. The average income tax rate is 8.7%.

The strong Shimakazean economy, worth 313 trillion yen a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is 64,856 yen, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

Captain Sakura Ayane has just been declared ruler of Shimakaze in an international press conference, it ain't easy to be green enough to be imported into Shimakaze, protesters against the government are hanged as a warning to others, and leading ethologists are being investigated for illegal electoral interference. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Shimakaze's national animal is the rabbit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Shintō.

Shimakaze is ranked 139,829^th in the world and 72^nd in Japan for Largest Populations, with 4.83 billion capita.