The Oceanus of Sharx is a gargantuan, genial nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, enforced nudity, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 19.733 billion Sharxians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Policy, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Port-aux-Requins. The average income tax rate is 80.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but inefficient Sharxian economy, worth a remarkable 1,153 trillion human legs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Information Technology. Average income is 58,444 human legs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Conspiracy theorists allege Port-aux-Requins's new subway map resembles Satanic symbols, the nation faces constant invasions by foreign boy bands, glamping Sharxians won't sleep in a tent that doesn't include a Jacuzzi, and psychiatrists that date patients are congratulated on their romantic conquests. Crime is totally unknown. Sharx's national animal is the human being, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sharx is ranked 289,623^rd in the world and 58^th in Nudist Dreamland for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.37 kickbacks per hour.