The 99 Communes of Scytho is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Scythian with an iron fist, and notable for its pith helmet sales, frequent executions, and compulsory vegetarianism. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.519 billion Scythians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Melancholia Scytharum. The average income tax rate is 80.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Scythian economy, worth 164 trillion credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 108,548 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Optometrists will see citizens in seconds but health inspectors won't be sighted for years, no one believes anything until it has been strenuously tested and peer-reviewed, the guillotine's a-swingin' all night long, and acknowledgement of minority groups is usually a Trojan horse. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Scytho's national animal is the aquila, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is materialism.

Scytho is ranked 30,469^th in the world and 330^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Cultured, scoring 79 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.