The Most Serene Republic of Skatt is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates and barren, inhospitable landscape. The hard-working, democratic population of 680 million Skattians 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 minute, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Public Transport. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.2%.

The very strong Skattian economy, worth 42.1 trillion rupees a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 61,851 rupees, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 250,778 per year while the poor average 10,154, a ratio of 24.7 to 1.

Raccoons are plump and satiated and piracy is the nation's most popular pastime. Crime is a major problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Skatt's national animal is the skattimal, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Skatt is ranked 291,278^th in the world and 3^rd in PU55Y for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring -4.47 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.