The People's Republic of Skovaholt is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Amaris-Roesia Quinn with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 5.218 billion Skovaholtians 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 enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Morcrest. The average income tax rate is 95.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Skovaholtian economy, worth 642 trillion Stryks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Trout Farming, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 123,139 Stryks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Weather forecasts are accurate but nobody has the bandwidth to view them, the automotive industry soaks up huge government handouts, every week is blindness awareness week, and the nation is famous for bravely sending wave after wave of its soldiers until the enemy runs out of bullets. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Skovaholt's national animal is the Pheasant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Deiskaeisism.

Skovaholt is ranked 7,815^th in the world and 421^st in Balder for Lowest Crime Rates, with 106.05 law-abiding acts per hour.