The Snark Queen of Shidei is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Mei with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cynical population of 11.828 billion Shidei are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, well-organized government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Seldan. The average income tax rate is 88.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Shidei economy, worth a remarkable 1,244 trillion seilakhs a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 105,246 seilakhs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Children as young as six shock their parents by coming out of the closet, the intelligence community is playing 4-D chess with an imaginary spy network, nobody wants to know how the sausage is made, and mutual cuisine decides political relations. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shidei's national animal is the steppe eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Tribadism.

Shidei is ranked 7,710^th in the world and 20^th in The Western Isles for Nicest Citizens, with 36.41 average smiles per day.