The Democratic States of Shion Sonozaki State is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its rampant corporate plagiarism, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 339 million Shion Sonozaki Stateans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 75.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Shion Sonozaki Statean economy, worth 19.0 trillion rubles a year, is quite specialized and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Gambling, and Soda Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 56,130 rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Grinding bureaucracy has the international wheels of justice turning slowly, all citizens must pass a 'multicultural sensitivity test' to be deemed fit for society, the Violetist community celebrates bombshells being dropped on Shion Sonozaki State, and gaping tourists take long-distance photos of diseased natives on "indigenous peoples" safari tours. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shion Sonozaki State's national animal is the squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Shion Sonozaki State is ranked 83,335^th in the world and 116^th in Astoria for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 2,615.36 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.