The Kingdom of Skjeldmark is a massive, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, pith helmet sales, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.661 billion Skjeldmarkians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Havnsborg. The average income tax rate is 86.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Skjeldish economy, worth 163 trillion Skjeldmark Kroner a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 98,395 Skjeldmark Kroner, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Milk often tastes of pea, party affiliation is just as irrelevant as campaign promises, school lessons are constantly interrupted by 'teacher needs a break' time, and Leader's used car is held together by bumper stickers that support the opposition. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Skjeldmark's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Skjeldmark is ranked 7,845^th in the world and 11^th in The League for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 6,493.59 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.