The Sultanate of Shugtopia is a colossal, genial nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 2.744 billion Shugtopians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 43.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Shugtopian economy, worth 94.2 trillion pesos a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Trout Farming, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 34,314 pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Politicians are often found scavenging bins at night to supplement their income, takeaway food bought on the weekend now comes with fifty percent more sweat and tears, they unpaved paradise and tore up a parking lot (ooh, bop bop bop), and road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shugtopia's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Shugtopia is ranked 208,753^rd in the world and 1^st in Shug for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -4.27 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.