The Colony of Dense Shrub Island is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, avowedly heterosexual populace, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 1.996 billion Dense Shrub Islandians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 42.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Dense Shrub Islandian economy, worth 133 trillion scudoes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 67,073 scudoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cheap textbooks have replaced coasters at college ragers, estate agents justify funky smells by revealing how often the previous owners showered, excessive wheelchair ramps on government buildings have been compared to theme park attractions, and racial supremacists indulge their wildest fantasies in cinemas and theatres across the nation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dense Shrub Island's national animal is the whale.

Dense Shrub Island is ranked 183,547^th in the world and 42^nd in Polychrome Archipelago for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 65.03 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.