The Collegial Republic of Scytho is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Scythian with an iron fist, and remarkable for its frequent executions, vat-grown people, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.525 billion Scythians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Melancholia Scytharum. The average income tax rate is 80.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Scythian economy, worth 167 trillion credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 109,787 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is spending serious cheddar protecting sewer rats, tax-payers are funding ever more extravagant movie projects, children's TV shows are having a gay old time, and bands of paramedics walk the streets looking for suspicious medical activity. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Scytho's national animal is the aquila, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is materialism.

Scytho is ranked 59,740^th in the world and 34^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3,384.6 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.