The Constitutional Monarchy of Scandaland is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Prime Minister Barnaby Wild with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, cheerful population of 45.999 billion Scandalandians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aldebaran. The average income tax rate is 99.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Scandalandian economy, worth a remarkable 9,778 trillion bigbucks a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 212,590 bigbucks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Schoolboys who turn to watch pretty girls go by are given detention, doctors prescribe medicines but they rarely dispense hope or compassion, people accuse the government of being in bed with Big Safety, and students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Scandaland's national animal is the golden seahorse, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is none.

Scandaland is ranked 205,586^th in the world and 16^th in Free States of Gaia for Largest Black Market, with 429 billion Standard Monetary Units.