The Community of Shady Grove is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service and absence of drug laws. The hard-working, democratic, devout population of 18.256 billion Shady Groveans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small government is primarily concerned with Spirituality, although Welfare, Law & Order, and Defense are also considered important, while International Aid isn't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 15.5%.

The strong Shady Grovean economy, worth a remarkable 1,134 trillion seashells a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Gambling, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 62,131 seashells, with the richest citizens earning 7.9 times as much as the poorest.

Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Shady Grove's national animal is the petrel, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Shady Grove is ranked 91,822^nd in the world and 2^nd in Blackacre for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2,360.49 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.