The Empire of Skeptical Science is a gargantuan, orderly nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, vat-grown people, and irreverence towards religion. The cynical population of 17.744 billion Skeptics 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 medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 34.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Skeptical economy, worth 726 trillion Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 40,925 Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

The government seeks peaceful forum with terrorists, citizens are grown in vats, radio shows frequently feature people denouncing religion, and morning coffees are no longer the same since the disappearance of newspapers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Skeptical Science's national animal is the Bantha, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Skeptical Science is ranked 213,742^nd in the world and 7^th in Confederation of the Sciences for Nicest Citizens, with 8.23 average smiles per day.