The United Socialist States of Scrapifax is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, sprawling nuclear power plants, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.021 billion Scrapifaxians 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 Defense, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Soul Harbour. The average income tax rate is 73.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Scrapifaxian economy, worth 185 trillion pobble beads 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 Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 61,240 pobble beads, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The combined alert sound of a nation simultaneously receiving a text message is a common cause of hearing damage, actively encouraging climate change is helping reduce winter fuel costs, news headlines suggest that Leader has a sideline in guinea pig pimping, and the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Scrapifax's national animal is the alpaca, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Scrapifax is ranked 37,335^th in the world and 874^th in the South Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 78.86 law-abiding acts per hour.