The Republic of Subtle Shark is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 7.839 billion Subtle Sharkians 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 Welfare, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 61.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Subtle Sharkian economy, worth 93.5 trillion Sea dollars 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, Basket Weaving, Uranium Mining, and Soda Sales. 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 11,922 Sea dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The new iVote app allows representatives to vote on legislation by launching ill-tempered birds and matching candies, the government tries not to listen to the people unless it absolutely has to, the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly, and the Federal Council of Subtle Shark has been announced as the new Head of State. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Subtle Shark's national animal is the Tiny Fish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Subtle Shark is ranked 246,409^th in the world and 4^th in Res Publica for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 564.9 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.