The Republic of Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 73 is a colossal, orderly nation, renowned for its enslaved workforce, pith helmet sales, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 5.276 billion Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 73ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 67.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 73ian economy, worth 498 trillion Bits a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 94,482 Bits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Ships are encouraged to deliberately run aground onto Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 73ian beaches, popular cartoon characters frequently appear in government-sponsored PSAs reminding students to say no to drugs, the government is under the thumb of countless special interests, and the police double as repo men. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 73's national animal is the Pony, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 73 is ranked 45,416^th in the world and 100^th in Sunset Shimmer for Lowest Crime Rates, with 75.62 law-abiding acts per hour.