The Protectorate of Sharklight is a mammoth, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 7.09 billion Sharklightians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 41.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Sharklightian economy, worth 62.4 trillion rupees 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, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 8,805 rupees, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sharklight's national animal is the emu.

Sharklight is ranked 69,640^th in the world and 127^th in Prison for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 3,942.13 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.