The Free Ocean of Legally Insane Shrimp is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, barren, inhospitable landscape, and feral children. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 600 million Shrimps are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Administration, with Industry also on the agenda, while Welfare and Law & Order receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Murder Capital of the World. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.5%.

The very strong Legally Insane Shrimpian economy, worth 36.5 trillion Shrimp Tails a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is fairly diversified and dominated by the Soda Sales industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 60,808 Shrimp Tails, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 550,244 per year while the poor average 799, a ratio of 687 to 1.

There's never a spare chair in the retirement home, it's a common sight to see angry commuters with grenade launchers mounted on their vehicles, elections are won by the candidate who makes the best 'yo mama' jokes, and weekly religious services often resemble campaign rallies. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Legally Insane Shrimp's national animal is the Shrimp, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Legally Insane Shrimp is ranked 255,271^st in the world and 3^rd in Every Body of Water for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -34.93 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.