The No Fifth Glyph of Skiva is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Vika Samkriva with a fair hand, and renowned for its smutty television, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 3.363 billion Skivans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aviks'ra City. The average income tax rate is 92.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Skivan economy, worth 442 trillion Ros'nbuchts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 131,557 Ros'nbuchts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government pours millions of Ros'nbuchts into rehabilitation programs annually, theatre audiences often need a telescope to see the stage, torture is illegal, and wars are filled with soldiers wielding machetes and chainsaws for safety reasons. Crime is totally unknown. Skiva's national animal is the Pantoran, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Agmatism.

Skiva is ranked 312,079^th in the world and 38^th in Realm of the Whispering Winds for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring -10.58 on the Hickory Productivity Index.