The Slavic Republic of Skrakia is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Vladimir Kornilov with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ubiquitous missile silos, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 7.853 billion Skrakians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saint Petersburg. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 83.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Skrakian economy, worth a remarkable 1,758 trillion Deniers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 223,891 Deniers, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 991,944 per year while the poor average 31,560, a ratio of 31.4 to 1.

Men are enrolling into lady etiquette courses, it isn't 'real music' without several cannons, thieves claim they're simply working for the tax agency, and the inchworm that measured the marigolds is six feet under. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Skrakia's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Skrakian Nationalism.

Skrakia is ranked 304,296^th in the world and 24^th in Moonveil for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring -7.07 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.