The Republic of Skyvalid 43 is a massive, pleasant nation, remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, avowedly heterosexual populace, and suspicion of poets. The hard-working, democratic population of 2.186 billion Skyvalid 43ians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 13.2%.

The Skyvalid 43ian economy, worth 105 trillion bitcoins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Tourism, Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Trout Farming. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 48,126 bitcoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.4 times as much as the poorest.

Small children are learning a lot of new words from a teacher with Tourette Syndrome, theatre may or may not be changing for the better but it is being changed for good, morale within the seismologist community has hit rock bottom, and student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned parrotball fields. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Skyvalid 43's national animal is the parrot.

Skyvalid 43 is ranked 134,893^rd in the world and 50^th in improper garrison si for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring 1,911.1 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.