The Retirement home of Shady acres retirement is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Leader with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, zero percent divorce rate, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 10.821 billion Shady acres retirementians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital City. The average income tax rate is 68.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Shady acres retirementian economy, worth a remarkable 2,675 trillion Monies a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 247,243 Monies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Prison reforms have replaced communal luaus with communal loos, search and rescue forces now accept cheques and all major credit cards, citizens can freely debate whether Leader is a great leader or the greatest leader, and teachers regularly paddle unruly students. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shady acres retirement's national animal is the Animal, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Religion.

Shady acres retirement is ranked 27,306^th in the world and 215^th in Nerdlandia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 84.39 law-abiding acts per hour.