The Schlaraffenstaat of Shetl is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Stock Photo Model Ariane with a fair hand, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, compulsory vegetarianism, and prohibition of alcohol. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 21.344 billion Menschen 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 Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Menschenbad. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Menschliche economy, worth a remarkable 5,429 trillion Big Zasters a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology. Average income is an amazing 254,368 Big Zasters, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Truancy is as easy as clicking a camera icon, the government has begun selling heroin and ecstasy to help fund its projects, lip-readers are often left perplexed by political rallies, and crowds of flag-burning protesters tend to accidentally become crowds of burning protesters. Crime is totally unknown. Shetl's national animal is the Landpony, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Nontheist Quakerism.

Shetl is ranked 136,420^th in the world and 589^th in Europe for Most Extreme, scoring 20.17 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.