The Holy Devolved Protectorate of Shihganfe is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Governor General Canhihfe with an iron fist, and remarkable for its triple-decker prams, prohibition of alcohol, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 8.42 billion Shihganfeans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Spirituality, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ganfa. The average income tax rate is 95.0%.

The all-consuming Shihganfean economy, worth 836 trillion Szchequinns a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports and Basket Weaving. Average income is 99,293 Szchequinns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Art criticism in Shihganfe is scathingly destructive, ethnic minorities are often refused admission to some of the nation's best schools, government police forces protect public schools from the threat of protest, and the government is rumored to hire body doubles whose full-time jobs are to cry at public events. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shihganfe's national animal is the Stork, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Shih.

Shihganfe is ranked 4,156^th in the world and 82^nd in The Communist Bloc for Lowest Crime Rates, with 121.04 law-abiding acts per hour.