The Federal Republic of Sharkrepublic is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its prohibition of alcohol, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, devout population of 368 million Sharkrepublicians 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 large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 56.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Sharkrepublician economy, worth 16.9 trillion Coins a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 45,928 Coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Money that should have gone to charities is instead spent on monitoring them, there are no bananas today in Sharkrepublic, the team in charge of creating a new writing system have spent months deciding whether or not to use serif or sans-serif characters, and girls who wear lipstick are berated for pandering to male gazes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sharkrepublic's national animal is the Shark.

Sharkrepublic is ranked 50,706^th in the world and 1,108^th in the South Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 73.97 law-abiding acts per hour.