The Citrus-Scented Republic of Shake Rag is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Ned Ryerson with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 13.079 billion Shake Ragians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tellico Plains. The average income tax rate is 43.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Shake Ragian economy, worth a remarkable 1,589 trillion Summer Sausages a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 121,563 Summer Sausages, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Preservative manufacturers are told to put a lid on it, weighted heels are added to military boots to ensure diminutive celebrities meet minimum requirements, grinding bureaucracy has the international wheels of justice turning slowly, and a little pushing and pulling is needed for big ships to pass. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shake Rag's national animal is the Golden Mosquito, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Shake Rag is ranked 22,532^nd in the world and 49^th in Christians for Highest Poor Incomes, with 87,493.11 Standard Monetary Units.