The Imperial Colony of Shazbotdom Miroxia is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Larry Williams with a fair hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 26.61 billion Shaz Miroxians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shazinberg. The average income tax rate is 70.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Shaz Miroxian economy, worth 640 trillion Black Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 24,073 Black Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Polling place volunteers are suddenly opening a huge number of offshore bank accounts, reporters often lose their jobs over fact-checking errors, religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else, and every workday begins with group therapy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shazbotdom Miroxia's national animal is the Mountain Goat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christian.

Shazbotdom Miroxia is ranked 253,882^nd in the world and 4^th in The Shazbotdom Empire for Most Cultured, scoring 62 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.