The Republic of Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 5 is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, ritual sacrifices, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.369 billion Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 5ians 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 medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shimmerlight. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 54.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 5ian economy, worth 674 trillion Bits a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 125,631 Bits, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 382,614 per year while the poor average 32,015, a ratio of 12.0 to 1.

Talking during class is a gateway to lifelong drug addiction, soldiers who shoot themselves in the foot are regarded as heroes, colonial citizens are forced to sing the praise of the "Great Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 5ian Liberator", and citizens are expected to be proficient in at least five languages. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 5's national animal is the Pony, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 5 is ranked 28,885^th in the world and 42^nd in Sunset Shimmer for Most Corrupt Governments, with 74.77 kickbacks per hour.