The Constitutional Monarchy of Scandaland is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Prime Minister Barnaby Wild with an even hand, and remarkable for its national health service, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful population of 44.501 billion Scandalandians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aldebaran. The average income tax rate is 99.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Scandalandian economy, worth a remarkable 9,062 trillion bigbucks a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 203,648 bigbucks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling", autopsies often involve only cursory examination, excessive wheelchair ramps on government buildings have been compared to theme park attractions, and radio shows frequently feature people denouncing religion. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Scandaland's national animal is the golden seahorse, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is none.

Scandaland is ranked 291,075^th in the world and 17^th in Free States of Gaia for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.2 kickbacks per hour.