The Colony of Shoddy Pigeon is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its frequent executions, ban on automobiles, and triple-decker prams. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 13.387 billion Shoddy Pigeons 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, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 43.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Shoddy economy, worth a remarkable 1,302 trillion crusts a year, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Retail, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 97,275 crusts, with the richest citizens earning 5.5 times as much as the poorest.

The government seizes the property of the recently deceased, grazing lands are filled with cattle wearing odd-looking anti-pollution devices, citizens simply have to point a weapon at a government official to get what they want, and no animal is considered endangered if there's another that looks kind of like it. Crime is moderate, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Shoddy Pigeon's national animal is the pigeon, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Shoddy Pigeon is ranked 239,789^th in the world and 1^st in United Order of Pigeonstotzka for Lowest Crime Rates, with 54.6 law-abiding acts per hour.