The Federation of Skechland is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, soft-spoken computers, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 355 million Skechlandians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of aetheris. The average income tax rate is 29.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Skechlandian economy, worth 23.7 trillion impals 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 major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is 66,625 impals, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens with artificial limbs are forbidden to serve as beauty pageant judges, officials pull all-nighters to check immigrants for potential links to terrorists, worship days have replaced sick days, and minority children spend hours bussing to schools miles away from home. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Skechland's national animal is the cobra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Skechland is ranked 37,474^th in the world and 1^st in Eyereal for Most Cultured, scoring 76 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.