The WATER'S COLD of Im Taking a Shower is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its absence of drug laws, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The democratic, devout population of 19.47 billion ShowerFolks 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 Spirituality, Welfare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of ShowerStall. The average income tax rate is 71.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Im Taking a Showerian economy, worth 779 trillion Stalls a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is 40,034 Stalls, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All government facilities are built in the subterranean citadel of ShowerStall, the nightly news reports prosaically on the government blindly throwing money at despotic kidnappers, and a new Brasilistani government has become a daily report on the main evening news. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Im Taking a Shower's national animal is the Water Droplet, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Im Taking a Shower is ranked 18,549^th in the world and 1^st in Paradoxia for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 1,234.47 on the Clooney Contribution Index.