The New Cruor Federation of SkyMasters is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Avakael with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, avant-garde cinema, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 39.106 billion SkyMastersians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Victory. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 80.5%.

The frighteningly efficient SkyMastersian economy, worth a remarkable 6,311 trillion Halicarnassuses 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 a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. 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 impressive 161,390 Halicarnassuses, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 616,971 per year while the poor average 29,173, a ratio of 21.1 to 1.

Children have nightmares about the eerie red glow and constant whirring of newly-installed machines, diplomatic missions typically end with a flurry of childish insults, accusations and phlegm, no personal detail is too tiny for the suede-denim census police, and barbed wire entanglements and guard towers surround the Victory Natural History Museum. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. SkyMasters's national animal is the White Phoenix, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Cruor.

SkyMasters is ranked 273,626^th in the world and 419^th in Ordo Imperialia for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 25.86 on the Bus Surprisal Index.