The Archipelago of ShrineIsland is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Commander Kari Haruka with an iron fist, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, frequent executions, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 27.422 billion Shrine Islanders are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sapporo. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 65.5%.

The frighteningly efficient ShrineIslandian economy, worth a remarkable 4,868 trillion Yen a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 177,557 Yen, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 743,963 per year while the poor average 27,580, a ratio of 27.0 to 1.

Anti-vaxxers claim that injected children are prone to psychotic breaks when they see the 'Queen of Diamonds' playing card, funeral directors are frequently looking at their watches during funerals, bands of paramedics walk the streets looking for suspicious medical activity, and the nation's laws on image rights are amongst the strictest in the world. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ShrineIsland's national animal is the Mountain Hawk Eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Shinto.

ShrineIsland is ranked 287,765^th in the world and 6,275^th in The North Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 0.25 average smiles per day.