The Holy Imperium of SKOG is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by The High Seraph with an iron fist, and notable for its closed borders, museums and concert halls, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 17.768 billion Astrali 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 enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Empyrean. The average income tax rate is 95.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Astrali economy, worth a remarkable 3,287 trillion Amritas 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 a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. 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 impressive 185,042 Amritas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The word 'elite' appears as a synonym for various insults in the Astrali Colonial Thesaurus, seasonal hay-fever sufferers are attending government drug counselling sessions to get free doughnuts, the sound of office water cooler chatter has been replaced by the whirring of computer cooling fans, and kindergartners' favourite dance move is the stop-drop-and-roll. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. SKOG's national animal is the Moth, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Cult of the Seraph.

SKOG is ranked 274,844^th in the world and 10,548^th in Osiris for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 7,586.76 Standard Monetary Units.