The Archduke of Scheinenland is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Order of Scansinia Second Class with an iron fist, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, compulsory military service, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 21.103 billion Scheines are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Scanburg. The average income tax rate is 69.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Scheinen economy, worth a remarkable 1,364 trillion Kaiserreicher Credits a year, is quite specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 64,643 Kaiserreicher Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is avowedly secular, travelers often bring empty plastic bottles on Air Scheinenland flights to avoid the pay lavatories, country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized, and major corporations receive tax breaks for no apparent reason. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Scheinenland's national animal is the Frank RIP, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Vedulism.

Scheinenland is ranked 16,098^th in the world and 9^th in KAISERREICH for Largest Black Market, with 250 trillion Standard Monetary Units.