The Sleeping Giant of Shizensky is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Willie Macks with a fair hand, and notable for its smutty television, sprawling nuclear power plants, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 42.689 billion Shizenskians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized government is primarily concerned with Education, with Industry, Healthcare, and Welfare also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Administration are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shizensk. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 61.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Shizenskian economy, worth a remarkable 4,591 trillion markers a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Gambling, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an impressive 107,551 markers, with the richest citizens earning 8.0 times as much as the poorest.

Polling place volunteers are suddenly opening a huge number of offshore bank accounts, the "war on terror" doesn't seem to be making Shizenskians any less frightened, poaching has been on the rise after animals from the nation's zoos were released into the wild, and it's been a banner year for local vexillology. Crime is totally unknown. Shizensky's national animal is the hamster, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Shizensky is ranked 17,104^th in the world and 9^th in Renegade Islands Alliance for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 5,180.38 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.