The Republic of Skull Tower is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 1.496 billion Skull Towerians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 59.8%.

The very strong Skull Towerian economy, worth 95.2 trillion stardusts a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 63,617 stardusts, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.8 times as much as the poorest.

Hospitals have to sell their computers on vBay in order to afford the ransomware decryption payments, extreme hiring regulations mean a job in Skull Tower is often a lifetime appointment, the decision to be oppressed is now made democratically, and charged suspects often have to wait years before the courts have room to judge their trial. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Skull Tower's national animal is the moonlark, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Skull Tower is ranked 157,426^th in the world and 1^st in Skull Tower for Smartest Citizens, with 28.97 quips per hour.