The Shinobi of The Shogun Assassin is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, compulsory military service, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 38.407 billion Shogun Assassinians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Shogun Assassinian economy, worth a remarkable 4,430 trillion Kokus a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 115,355 Kokus, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 645,526 per year while the poor average 10,244, a ratio of 63.0 to 1.

The government extracts trade concessions from poor nations in exchange for humanitarian aid, city sidewalks are crowded with overweight people, the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit, and people regularly disappear off the streets and all evidence of them is destroyed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. The Shogun Assassin's national animal is the Akita-inu, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The Shogun Assassin is ranked 88,760^th in the world and 2^nd in Firehelm for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 107.75 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.