The Republic of SCUBA Trooper 16 is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, digital currency, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, hard-working, devout population of 1.486 billion SCUBA Trooper 16ians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 32.9%.

The strong SCUBA Trooper 16ian economy, worth 77.0 trillion Credits a year, is led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 51,787 Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

The traditional Violetist dish of stuffed sheep's head is served with an intense look of shock upon its face, six-year-old children playing dress-up are viewed with suspicion, literally voiceless people are unable to protest when food and water are denied to them, and prison walls have had to be modified to keep parkour-trained criminals from escaping. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. SCUBA Trooper 16's national animal is the Droid, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

SCUBA Trooper 16 is ranked 185,693^rd in the world and 3^rd in The Western Republic for Least Corrupt Governments, with 92.9 percentage of bribes refused.