The Seadogs of Skiva is a mammoth, socially progressive nation, ruled by Vika Samkriva with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, lack of airports, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 6.766 billion Skivans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, 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 Aviksera City. The average income tax rate is 92.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Skivan economy, worth 892 trillion Rosenbuchts 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 131,882 Rosenbuchts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Vote-counting is replacing kitchen patrol as the least glamorous army work, Tetris has been banned for its graphic violent content, school plays were recently banned due to concerns of child endangerment, and Vika Samkriva's family members carry literal get-out-of-jail-free cards. 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 301,146^th in the world and 11^th in Realm of the Whispering Winds for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring -6.32 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.