The Grapes of Wrath of What a sham is a gargantuan, cultured nation, renowned for its frequent executions, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 18.792 billion What a shamians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 61.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong What a shamian economy, worth a remarkable 1,509 trillion $$s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Automobile Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 80,329 $$s, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma, a few immigrants are better than no immigrants according to Leader, broken suspension systems are giving auto repair shops plenty of business, and the nation threatens sanctions on islands only visible at low tide. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. What a sham's national animal is the Death's-head Hawkmoth.

What a sham is ranked 258,930^th in the world and 1^st in Persian Empire for Most Primitive, scoring -184.43 on the Scary Big Number Scale.