The People's Republic of Shanghai Tarany is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 260 million Chinese 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 government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Industry, and Administration also on the agenda, while Spirituality and International Aid aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The great city of Shanghai. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 43.7%.

The powerhouse Shanghai Taranyian economy, worth 21.3 trillion Chinese yuan a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 81,945 Chinese yuan, with the richest citizens earning 8.0 times as much as the poorest.

Mr Happy's Funland has just been named Shanghai Tarany's new capital, newspapers are celebrating Leader saving over a million cats from trees, Shanghai Taranyian watches list strained wrists as a common side effect, and pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shanghai Tarany's national animal is the panda, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Shanghai Tarany is ranked 209,697^th in the world and 48^th in China for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -0.99 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.