The Commonwealth of Schilchania is a large, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 168 million Schilchanians enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The tiny, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.4%.

The very strong Schilchanian economy, worth 12.4 trillion Demuroes a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Soda Sales, and Book Publishing. Average income is 73,624 Demuroes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 240,938 per year while the poor average 16,901, a ratio of 14.3 to 1.

Psychiatrists that date patients are congratulated on their romantic conquests, social media sites prompt users to send birthday greetings to unresponsive nonagenarians, lonely children write fanfiction about absent fathers, and drawing men's naughty bits isn't considered to be art. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Schilchania's national animal is the Porcupine, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Schilchania is ranked 229,017^th in the world and 2^nd in The Assortment of Free Degenerates for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.