The Holy Empire of King Shlib is a large, safe nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates, restrictive gun laws, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 116 million King Shlibians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 66.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient King Shlibian economy, worth 4.22 trillion Shlib Coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Cheese Exports, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 36,394 Shlib Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Aeroplane cockpits no longer have altimeters or airspeed indicators, internet moderators work overtime to remove memes comparing Leader to cartoon bears, international television adverts praise the nation as a worker's paradise, and sniffer dogs are trained to follow clouds of fruity-smelling vapor. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. King Shlib's national animal is the Best Animal, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

King Shlib is ranked 172,674^th in the world and 652^nd in Concord for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 485.38 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.