The Empire of Shiyan is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Sammy Shiyan with an even hand, and renowned for its ban on automobiles and punitive income tax rates. The quiet, industrious population of 23.219 billion Shiyanians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Public Transport, Environment, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shiyanya. The average income tax rate is 61.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Shiyanian economy, worth 416 trillion Dollars a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Cheese Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 17,947 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cars are banned, Shiyan has designated Shiyanya as its capital city, Sammy Shiyan has just been declared ruler of Shiyan in an international press conference, and Shiyanism has been named as Shiyan's national religion. Crime is almost non-existent, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shiyan's national animal is the horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Shiyanism.

Shiyan is ranked 118,226^th in the world and 1^st in Fruos for Safest, scoring 74.4 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.