The Last Frontier of Shakalam is a massive, orderly nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, lack of airports, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.485 billion Shakalamians 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, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Knappenburb. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 67.1%.

The strong Shakalamian economy, worth 142 trillion Feal-Leaves 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 95,857 Feal-Leaves, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 290,614 per year while the poor average 24,587, a ratio of 11.8 to 1.

Fine dining is just too fine for most of the populace, Leader's luxurious new home has been designated as a protected cultural heritage site, citizens volunteer for tax audits to avoid the 80-page Practical Assessment Survey Tool On Religions, and military parades quietly tiptoe their way through the streets. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Shakalam's national animal is the Cicada, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Shakalam is ranked 300,841^st in the world and 10^th in Ninjar Tyla Blevins Cancer Syndrome for Safest, scoring 7.25 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.