The Free Ocean of Legally Insane Shrimp is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its enslaved workforce, rampant corporate plagiarism, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 574 million Shrimps are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Public Transport. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Murder Capital of the World. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.5%.

The very strong Legally Insane Shrimpian economy, worth 36.9 trillion Shrimp Tails a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is fairly diversified and dominated by the Soda Sales industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 64,288 Shrimp Tails, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 581,372 per year while the poor average 850, a ratio of 683 to 1.

Town welcome signs list corporate sponsors, the death penalty has been reintroduced, the nation's leading climatologists are investigating animal flatulence in efforts to reduce methane emissions, and well-off serial killers write monthly checks to avoid jail time. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Legally Insane Shrimp's national animal is the Shrimp, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Legally Insane Shrimp is ranked 285,404^th in the world and 3^rd in Every Body of Water for Most Patriotic, with 0.34 flags saluted per person per day.