The Commonwealth of Scandivielium is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 270 million Scandivites are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Taumblium. The average income tax rate is 69.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Scandivieliumian economy, worth 17.7 trillion SKS a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 65,525 SKS, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Government officials are held to the highest standard of morality, conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, artists are renowned for their ability to make art pieces out of thin air, and the new 'Who Wants To Be A Politician' election debate auditions are more popular than the debates themselves. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Scandivielium's national animal is the Scandivite Elk.

Scandivielium is ranked 279,328^th in the world and 4,834^th in The East Pacific for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.67 kickbacks per hour.