The Ricky Spanish Easter Egg of Shibutani is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Daniel with an iron fist, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, public floggings, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 13.504 billion Shibutanians 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 tiny, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of MAYA. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Shibutanian economy, worth a remarkable 5,796 trillion Bitcoins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an amazing 429,214 Bitcoins, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,382,718 per year while the poor average 100,838, a ratio of 13.7 to 1.

What's in your genes matters more than what's in your jeans, millionaires are surprised to find they are eligible for government handouts, government projects are full of waste, and the government is making attempts at curtailing the flood of spam emails with little progress. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Shibutani's national animal is the cow, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Church of the Cosmic Skull.

Shibutani is ranked 6,965^th in the world and 174^th in The North Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 10,910.23 on the Gilded Widget Scale.