The Dominion of Shorewest is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its compulsory military service and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 36.836 billion Shorewestians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 61.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but inefficient Shorewestian economy, worth a remarkable 1,022 trillion crabs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Arms Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 27,749 crabs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voting is voluntary. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shorewest's national animal is the shore.

Shorewest is ranked 148,068^th in the world and 35^th in Florida for Most Primitive, scoring -52.92 on the Scary Big Number Scale.