The United Socialist States of Shor-Kana is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by The Workers Vanguard of Shor-Kana with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.285 billion Kanas are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Trotsky City. The average income tax rate is 94.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Shor-Kanan economy, worth 164 trillion Shors 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 128,033 Shors, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All the playground's a stage for Shor-Kanan schoolchildren, the government spends more on chasing distant comets than on basic infrastructure, the Party has more splits than a yo-yo dieter's trousers, and the state believes that nature-oriented summer camps will somehow solve youth crime. Crime is totally unknown. Shor-Kana's national animal is the Red Panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Marxism.

Shor-Kana is ranked 303,816^th in the world and 782^nd in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -16.06 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.