The Commonwealth of Skion is a very large, safe nation, notable for its avant-garde cinema, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 496 million Skiandics are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Atheicentral. The average income tax rate is 75.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Skionian economy, worth 31.7 trillion kronor a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Cheese Exports, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 63,981 kronor, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hospitals in Skion are too busy serving the needs of The Leftist Assembly to see Skiandics, on-duty Air Skion flight attendants are usually seen napping in first class, keeping the lights on keeps the lights on for increasing amounts of Skiandics, and the government regularly publishes lengthy reports on its own excessive recordkeeping. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Skion's national animal is the Rusty-Spotted Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Skion is ranked 145,001^st in the world and 150^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 2,170.94 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.