The Timbered Parliament of Psiloscops is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by an Owl with an even hand, and remarkable for its teetotalling pirates, museums and concert halls, and state-planned economy. The compassionate population of 3.228 billion Psiloscops are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kournia. The average income tax rate is 95.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Psiloscopsian economy, worth 397 trillion Barrings a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 123,199 Barrings, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Workers for the environmental protection agency are patted down for tartar sauce every morning, armed war-criminals gain asylum if deemed 'fabulous' enough, the Smalltopian embassy doubles as an electoral campaign headquarters, and a faint smell of body odour can be detected at several miles' distance from the National Science Park. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Psiloscops's national animal is the Flammulated Owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Psiloscops is ranked 321,235^th in the world and 845^th in Europe for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 5,667.18 Standard Monetary Units.