The Kingdom of Skylus is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Emily and Harold Vixen with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and national health service. The compassionate, devout population of 21.493 billion Skylusians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Skyopolis. The average income tax rate is 82.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Skylusian economy, worth a remarkable 1,599 trillion rupees a year, is highly specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 74,441 rupees, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them, the government is funding experimental battery technology while the power grid continues to crumble, street preachers sell salvation with a side order of shame on every corner, and employers are finding it hard to screen candidates now that everyone gets A grades in their exams. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Skylus's national animal is the Phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Threesolipsism.

Skylus is ranked 311,840^th in the world and 2^nd in The Federation of Anarchist Communes for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -8.9 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.