The Nightosphere of Shevik is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Reanimated Toussaint L'Ouverture with an iron fist, and remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, national health service, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 11.399 billion Shevikians are ruled with an iron fist by the socialist government, which grants its people the freedom to do whatever they like so long as it doesn't involve getting richer than anybody else or challenging the government.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of El Dorado. The average income tax rate is 96.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Shevikian economy, worth a remarkable 2,322 trillion luas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 203,781 luas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Shevik is sometimes referred to as the global janitor, scientists are terrified of fabulous new breakthroughs, if someone says there's plenty of living space in Shevik they're lyin', and school plays were recently banned due to concerns of child endangerment. Crime is totally unknown. Shevik's national animal is the capybara, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Cult of R'hllor.

Shevik is ranked 4,734^th in the world and 37^th in Forest for Largest Information Technology Sector, scoring 45,161.5 on the Fann-Boi Productivity Index.