The Empire of New Scottika is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Duce with an even hand, and remarkable for its frequent executions, aversion to nipples, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 21.536 billion New Scottikans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The tiny, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Scottlingrad. The average income tax rate is 3.5%.

The frighteningly efficient New Scottikan economy, worth a remarkable 7,143 trillion Scottikanmarks a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 331,700 Scottikanmarks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.6 times as much as the poorest.

Dreams of replicator technology have been dashed following a ban on 3D printers, maintaining economic growth is no laughing matter, politicians and casino owners who so much as wander into the same room are arrested on the spot, and the most ambitious parents buy a dozen lottery scratch-cards each week for their kids. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. New Scottika's national animal is the Great White Shark, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

New Scottika is ranked 87,009^th in the world and 1,054^th in the West Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 2,415.27 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.