The Empire of Scandrial is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Lord Conqueror with an iron fist, and notable for its closed borders, vat-grown people, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 14.085 billion Skaa 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 effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, with Law & Order and Education also on the agenda, while Welfare and Social Policy are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Nexus of a Thousand Spires. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Skaa economy, worth a remarkable 9,024 trillion bitcoins 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, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing and Information Technology. 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 a breathtaking 640,684 bitcoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

The Lord Conqueror's office has a newly installed Max-Man arcade game programmed by a 5th-grader, the army's use of chemical weapons leaves a bad taste in the mouth, wood-framed catapults are ready to launch diseased corpses into besieged cities, and exceptionally healthy police officers can sprint after crooks for hours on end. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Scandrial's national animal is the crow, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Scandrial is ranked 134,178^th in the world and 2,305^th in The East Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 735.03 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.