The Federal Republic of Shadehook is a mammoth, safe nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, pith helmet sales, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 5.129 billion Shadesians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Oliopolis. The average income tax rate is 17.6%.

The strong Shadehookian economy, worth 310 trillion Tokens a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Gambling, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 60,545 Tokens, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Robosexual marriages are increasingly common, you need two tenors and a coloratura contralto to sing the national anthem properly, it is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws, and domestic fishermen fly the Shadehookian flag out of fear of being blown up. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Shadehook's national animal is the Ragdoll Cat, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Shadehook is ranked 256,159^th in the world and 65^th in Kantrias for Most Cultured, scoring 62 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.