The United Kingdom of Filling shortly is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its public floggings, ban on automobiles, and suspicion of poets. The quiet, industrious population of 4.482 billion Filling shortlyians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 23.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Filling shortlyian economy, worth 113 trillion Delta Eagles 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 Information Technology, Tourism, Cheese Exports, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. 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 25,330 Delta Eagles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every week is blindness awareness week, the state is footing the bill for billionaires' lawyers, the nation's police officers are famously miserable-looking, and national park visitors are reporting a rash of poison ivy sightings. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Filling shortly's national animal is the Kitsune, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Filling shortly is ranked 182,327^th in the world and 7^th in Tampa for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 23.91 Effective Tax Rate.