The Timbered Parliament of Psiloscops is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by an Owl with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, smutty television, and national health service. The compassionate population of 3.108 billion Psiloscops are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kournia. The average income tax rate is 94.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Psiloscopsian economy, worth 376 trillion Barrings 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 major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 121,299 Barrings, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak, nouveau riche farmers diligently take care of their golden calf herds, toy versions of heroin paraphernalia let kids pretend to be their favourite TV characters, and would-be emigrants are told "abandon all hope all ye who would exit here". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Psiloscops's national animal is the Flammulated Owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Psiloscops is ranked 11,720^th in the world and 233^rd in Europe for Most Cultured, scoring 107 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.