The Democratic Republic of Scyllaum is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Judge A Cami with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, unlimited-speed roads, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 1.979 billion Scyllaumians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hanashi. The average income tax rate is 57.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Scyllaumian economy, worth 283 trillion Kings a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 143,253 Kings, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Immigrants are told to pull themselves up by their worn-out budget bootstraps, pharmaceutical companies emphatically promise that "your pills are in the mail" rather than admit any supply shortfall, the wheel has been patented by at least a hundred people, and vehicular homicide by Scyllaumian ambassadors is a leading cause of death throughout the world's capital cities. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Scyllaum's national animal is the Golshi Dragon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is The Christian Faith.

Scyllaum is ranked 19,995^th in the world and 1,016^th in Osiris for Most Cultured, scoring 88 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.