The Jingoistic States of ShadowBay is a colossal, genial nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape. The hard-working, cynical population of 2.687 billion ShadowBayians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 19.0%.

The strong ShadowBayian economy, worth 133 trillion rubledollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 49,510 rubledollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

The new Hawk Supremacy Party is faring well in the polls, the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, citizens are barcoded to keep track of their movements, and it is illegal to make racist remarks in public. Crime is relatively low, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ShadowBay's national animal is the hawk, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

ShadowBay is ranked 210,345^th in the world and 1^st in ten thousand islands for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 50 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.