The Loving Couple of Shipping Fan- is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Pu with an iron fist, and remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, public floggings, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 6.632 billion Shipping Fan-ians 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Spirit World. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 72.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Shipping Fan-ian economy, worth 960 trillion dollars a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 144,798 dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 423,013 per year while the poor average 39,141, a ratio of 10.8 to 1.

Citizens try to pass off bottlecaps they found in their backyards as historical artifacts, the justice of Shipping Fan- is considered superior to that of other nations, octogenarian swimsuit models insist that they've still got it, and art criticism in Shipping Fan- is scathingly destructive. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shipping Fan-'s national animal is the dove, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Cards.

Shipping Fan- is ranked 190,944^th in the world and 68^th in Greater Dienstad for Safest, scoring 50.43 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.