The People's Republic of Skovaholt is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Amaris-Roesia Quinn with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, cynical population of 5.303 billion Skovaholtians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Morcrest. The average income tax rate is 95.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Skovaholtian economy, worth 646 trillion Stryks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Trout Farming, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 121,836 Stryks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Computers are used primarily for word processing and solitaire, too many developers spoil the codebase, the latest electric jet fighter has almost enough battery charge to reach cruising altitude -- provided you don't use the radar, and there's no cure or sympathy for the common cold. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Skovaholt's national animal is the Pheasant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Deiskaeisism.

Skovaholt is ranked 201,473^rd in the world and 7,626^th in Balder for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -3.16 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.