The Federal Republic of Scugen is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, devout population of 512 million Scugenians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wawai. The average income tax rate is 61.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Scugenian economy, worth 8.83 trillion perls 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 dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Information Technology. Average income is 17,238 perls, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scugenians submit requests for a date in writing with an enclosed RSVP card, a favorite "life hack" for gap year backpackers is to pretend to be homeless for government handouts, teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, and enemy navies sail within bombardment range of major coastal cities with impunity. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Scugen's national animal is the slugcat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Scugen is ranked 295,357^th in the world and 202^nd in Karma for Most Developed, scoring 46.36 on the Human Development Index.