The Queendom of Shalsha is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 749 million Shalshänen love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of RyuKitasa. The average income tax rate is 80.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Shalshan economy, worth 40.3 trillion Danengas a year, is quite specialized and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 53,837 Danengas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Families make most of their annual income from government benefits, advertisers are struggling to make water sound cool to a twitchy public, giggling teens are asked to put their mouths on rubber dolls, and all work and no play has rendered the nation's children somewhat intelligent but also remarkably dull. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shalsha's national animal is the Kitsune, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Shalsha is ranked 278,482^nd in the world and 257^th in Aesica for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7.62 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.