The Socialist Republic of SKM is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by President Joe Frank Kennedy with an iron fist, and renowned for its national health service, soft-spoken computers, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 11.54 billion Perishes are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The medium-sized, corrupt, liberal, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Industry, Education, and Healthcare are also considered important. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saant-Instetet. The average income tax rate is 94.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Perziche economy, worth a remarkable 3,572 trillion Perish Dollar Eroes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 309,532 Perish Dollar Eroes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is still not known if the commander in chief outranks the supreme commander, the comic book series 'President Joe Frank Kennedy and the Villainous Corporate Cronies' is a best-seller, dynamite sales and concert audiences are booming, and no one believes anything until it has been strenuously tested and peer-reviewed. Crime is totally unknown. SKM's national animal is the Wedge-tailed Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Arsenalian Catholicism.

SKM is ranked 104,180^th in the world and 4^th in The Alliance of Eros for Lowest Crime Rates, with 65.54 law-abiding acts per hour.