The Republic of ERNS Sunset Shimmer is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Sunset Shimmer with an even hand, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, disturbing lack of elderly people, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, devout population of 7.314 billion ERNS Sunset Shimmerians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shimmerlight. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 57.1%.

The all-consuming ERNS Sunset Shimmerian economy, worth 734 trillion Bits a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 100,447 Bits, with the richest citizens earning 6.0 times as much as the poorest.

Politicians have to be granted day-release from prison to speak on bills, money can't buy love but mercy is entirely negotiable, truancy is as easy as clicking a camera icon, and Sunset Shimmer's exquisite office door is replaced monthly due to angry petitioners. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ERNS Sunset Shimmer's national animal is the Pony, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Church of the Virtual Boy.

ERNS Sunset Shimmer is ranked 198,229^th in the world and 476^th in Sunset Shimmer for Safest, scoring 53.28 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.