The Empire of Great Scapula is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Dher with an even hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, national health service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 13.005 billion Great Scapulans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The enormous government prioritizes Education, although Healthcare, Environment, and Industry are also considered important, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vikaland. The average income tax rate is 96.8%.

The frighteningly efficient a Great Scapulan economy, worth a remarkable 1,959 trillion golds a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 150,646 golds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.2 times as much as the poorest.

A Great Scapulan tourists are banned from many nations due to their tendency to randomly explode, you can't put down the nation's attitude to pet health, therapists can always squeeze in another house-call, and hiding wrinkles with make-up is illegal. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Great Scapula's national animal is the white deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is the cult to Vika.

Great Scapula is ranked 184,645^th in the world and 7,489^th in the South Pacific for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -6.45 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.