The Collegial Republic of Scytho is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Scythian with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory vegetarianism, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.535 billion Scythians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Melancholia Scytharum. The average income tax rate is 81.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Scythian economy, worth 166 trillion credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is an impressive 108,720 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Bands of paramedics walk the streets looking for suspicious medical activity, it is mandatory for actors to exit stage left, suburban backyards are seized by the government and turned into national parks, and the nationalistic national anthem inspires citizens to literally spit at foreigners. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Scytho's national animal is the aquila, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is materialism.

Scytho is ranked 15,360^th in the world and 297^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 3,992.17 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.