The Collegial Republic of Scytho is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Scythiana Tertia with an iron fist, and remarkable for its frequent executions, digital currency, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.647 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 enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Augusta Melancholia Scytharum. The average income tax rate is 82.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Scythian economy, worth 182 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 Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is an impressive 110,563 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating, mountain rescue missions can end with more people lost than found, exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting, and grannies get pulled over for knitting pullovers while driving. 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 247,360^th in the world and 489^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 40.78 on the Kitten Softness Rating.