The Empire of SHASLAND is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by SamusHikaru with an iron fist, and remarkable for its frequent executions, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 19.847 billion SHASLANDians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yeland. The average income tax rate is 85.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming SHASLANDian economy, worth a remarkable 2,033 trillion SHAS a year, is highly specialized and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 102,451 SHAS, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again, attendance of fathers at PTA meetings is at an all-time high, the fire protection service is wholly government-funded, and the government has pledged that not one drop of its citizens' blood will be spilt. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. SHASLAND's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

SHASLAND is ranked 287,305^th in the world and 10,753^rd in Osiris for Fattest Citizens, with 5.79 Obesity Rate.