The Empire of Schandia is a mid-sized, orderly nation, notable for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 56 million Schandians 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 66.8%.

The sizeable but inefficient Schandian economy, worth 2.28 trillion bitcoins a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Retail, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 40,792 bitcoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Newly-privatized lumberjacks are clearcutting the forest to meet demand, the nation's leading climatologists are investigating animal flatulence in efforts to reduce methane emissions, anyone who sleeps in past 9am can be declared legally dead, and the tribal zone has been opened to up to 'economic interest' groups. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Schandia's national animal is the Tung Tung Sahur, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Schandia is ranked 248,660^th in the world and 6^th in Ray Rice Region for Highest Average Incomes, with 40,792.23 Standard Monetary Units.