Fully kinetic simulations are used in this work to study strong shock waves in fully ionized plasmas for charge state $Z$ ranging from 1 to 18. The ion stress tensor amplitude agrees well with classical predictions within the compression layer; however, its spatial structure is noticeably shaped by nonlocal transport effects. The electron stress tensor remains significantly smaller than that of the ions for all values of $Z$ considered. Ion overheating in the compression layer is observed to scale approximately linearly with $Z$. Both findings diverge from hydrodynamic models based on classical electron stress formulations. The electrons exhibit strong nonlocal behavior in the compression layer, with Knudsen numbers approaching unity for $Z\ge 6$.

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