The United Commonwealths of Scytharum is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Nicholas Langston with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and otherworldly petting zoo. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 2.16 billion Scythaics are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business government is primarily concerned with Industry, with Healthcare, Defense, and Education also on the agenda, while Social Policy and Welfare are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aureus. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Scythaic economy, worth 320 trillion Aurums a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 148,389 Aurums, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 552,536 per year while the poor average 27,971, a ratio of 19.8 to 1.

The government has ordered a moratorium on referenda, it's been a banner year for local vexillology, 'The Anti-Government Hour' is a popular programme on many of Scytharum's radio stations, and citizens insist that there's no law against standing downwind when marijuana crops are burned off. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Scytharum's national animal is the Elk, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Scytharum is ranked 75,120^th in the world and 385^th in Europe for Most Stationary, with 339.88254636392 days.