The Incorporated States of Shetopia is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, national health service, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, hard-working population of 1.267 billion Shetopians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Shetopian economy, worth 171 trillion Plastids a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 135,277 Plastids, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 398,095 per year while the poor average 36,193, a ratio of 11.0 to 1.

The nation is renowned abroad for its love of blood and guts, the voyages of obsolete star-trekking satellites on deliberate escape orbits are only just beginning, the standard government reply to any query is "there is no spoon", and textbooks are exactly twice as heavy as they used to be. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Shetopia's national animal is the Storm Gull, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Shetopia is ranked 74,232^nd in the world and 161^st in The Frontier Sea for Most Developed, scoring 69.06 on the Human Development Index.