The Red Federation of ShadyStans is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by President Maxwell with an even hand, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, free-roaming dinosaurs, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 4.258 billion ShadyStanians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ilian. The average income tax rate is 96.1%.

The frighteningly efficient ShadyStansian economy, worth 628 trillion Cigs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 147,643 Cigs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The wealthiest parts of the country receive the most government spending, there are no more heroes any more, courtrooms can be a little sketchy, and all guns must be registered. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ShadyStans's national animal is the Shadishian Dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Shadish Polytheism.

ShadyStans is ranked 6,160^th in the world and 330^th in Osiris for Lowest Crime Rates, with 111.66 law-abiding acts per hour.