Sheldon is a colony of the Holy Germanian Empire. In 1884, at the Berlin Confrence, Cornwall-Ginnis seceeded it's colony of Ireland-Ganisha to Germania, who renamed it Sheldon after it's predomiant ethnic people, the Sheldonians.
Sheldon's major industries are farming, harvesting, merchant shipping, shipbuilding, metalsworking, food packaging, manfacturing, chemicals production, electronics production, and clothing.