The Colony of Shaggy Pigeon is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its strictly enforced bedtime, pith helmet sales, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 13.46 billion Shaggy Pigeons are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 40.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Shaggy economy, worth a remarkable 1,578 trillion crusts 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 large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Retail, Woodchip Exports, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Basket Weaving. 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 an impressive 117,253 crusts, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

The official Shaggy Phrase Book weighs as much as a small child, it is well recognised that you can't sustain communism without a bit of spirit, a PhD just ain't what it used to be, and enemy navies sail within bombardment range of major coastal cities with impunity. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shaggy Pigeon's national animal is the pigeon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Shaggy Pigeon is ranked 67,927^th in the world and 2^nd in Birdland for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 450.8 on the Clooney Contribution Index.