The Equine Dominion of The Shadowfax is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its smutty television, frequent executions, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 37.081 billion Shadowfaxians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed, including voting. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The tiny, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.8%.

The all-consuming Shadowfaxian economy, worth a remarkable 3,514 trillion Rings a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 94,769 Rings, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 289,501 per year while the poor average 24,046, a ratio of 12.0 to 1.

Nervous homeowners have been blamed for rising death rates amongst carol singers and locksmiths, teenagers are sent to jail for being out too late, Pinkerton agents are called in to forcibly break up white collar strikes, and guns are banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. The Shadowfax's national animal is the Wizard, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The Shadowfax is ranked 105,066^th in the world and 1^st in Minas Tirith for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 33.5 on the Bus Surprisal Index.