The Dictatorship of Shabooya is a mammoth, safe nation, notable for its frequent executions, anti-smoking policies, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 8.379 billion Shabooyans 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, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 78.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Shabooyan economy, worth 42.9 trillion gavels a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Trout Farming, Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 5,119 gavels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Urban parents tell their children that the family car went to a farm upstate, women wearing male lounge-wear are quizzed for hours by mental health practitioners, there's sophisticated talk of revolution within the ever-expanding mining colonies, and citizens have an obligation to remain silent and anything they say may be used against them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shabooya's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Shabooya is ranked 303,447^th in the world and 180^th in Neocortex for Smartest Citizens, with 1.42 quips per hour.