The Federation of Trans-Skittles is a large, safe nation, notable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 96 million Trans-Skittlesians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 64.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Trans-Skittlesian economy, worth 2.54 trillion Skittleses a year, is quite specialized and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 26,450 Skittleses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Police officers often conceal their identities to safeguard against public complaints, you can't put down the nation's attitude to pet health, a third of Trans-Skittlesians are e-certified CEOs, and the government officially wants you to slow down and speak more clearly. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Trans-Skittles's national animal is the Unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Trans-Skittles is ranked 219,761^st in the world and 297^th in Refugia for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 25.88 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.