The Republic of Squillania is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 16.471 billion Squillanians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Malden. The average income tax rate is 52.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Squillanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,421 trillion Levas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Tourism, Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 86,284 Levas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

The children of Squillania are often remarked upon for their cheery attitude to extreme violence, park rangers struggle to deal with a rash of stolen pic-a-nic baskets, Maxtopians are both starving and giddy after the Squillanian military unleashed its biological weapons, and biker gangs and fashionistas are converting to the Tranquility of Yellow en masse. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Squillania's national animal is the Deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Squillania is ranked 113,256^th in the world and 1^st in Usea for Highest Food Quality, scoring 23.26 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.