The Community of Shapeville is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its smutty television, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.186 billion Shapevilleans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Education. The average income tax rate is 43.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Shapevillean economy, worth 123 trillion vertexes a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 103,726 vertexes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Gallery of Instasnap is the most popular museum in the country, the television adaptation of Jennifer Government is the most popular program in the nation, city-slickers are jelly of all the farmland the government is giving away, and the nation's space program is doxxing the planet. Crime is well under control. Shapeville's national animal is the face, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Shapeville is ranked 17,031^st in the world and 613^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 93 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.