The Glorious Empire of Schminkleburg is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Sir Jomothy with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.625 billion Schminkleburgers 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 large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Las Floridas. The average income tax rate is 60.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Schminkleburgish economy, worth 281 trillion Doubloons a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 60,792 Doubloons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Being doxxed on social media is now mandatory, high-income earners pay a 100% tax rate, public ferries only carry enough lifeboats for the first-class passengers, and country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Schminkleburg's national animal is the Chimera, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Casinoism.

Schminkleburg is ranked 70,595^th in the world and 19^th in Surpridom of the Left for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 60.19 Effective Tax Rate.