The Armed Republic of Scalesburg is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Rodney Osborne with an iron fist, and renowned for its public floggings, parental licensing program, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 3.952 billion Scalesburgians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Industry, Administration, and Education are also considered important. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of St Montclair. The average income tax rate is 96.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Scalesburgian economy, worth a remarkable 1,791 trillion k-bucks 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, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, and Soda Sales. 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 453,260 k-bucks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's soldiers sleep four to a bed in order to use space economically, bread-gangs raid restaurant waste bins to stockpile uneaten rolls, kids feel more beat up than ever after a hard day at school, and citizens have reported seeing strange rays of light emanating from the moon. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Scalesburg's national animal is the wolf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Scalesburg is ranked 101,976^th in the world and 31^st in Novus Lucidum for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 807.39 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.