The Republic of Scout is a titanic, safe nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, ban on automobiles, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 17.091 billion Scoutians 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 Administration, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Scout. The average income tax rate is 69.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Scoutian economy, worth 848 trillion Dacs a year, is highly specialized and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Furniture Restoration, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 49,644 Dacs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, expectant parents view twins with equal parts joy and suspicion, bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of, and former planespotters are dusting off long-abandoned anoraks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Scout's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Scout is ranked 45,661^st in the world and 9^th in Devia for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 69.13 Effective Tax Rate.