The Commonwealth of Scooteristan is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.392 billion Scooteristas enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Environment, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pookie. The average income tax rate is 85.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Scooteristanian economy, worth 243 trillion grams a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Cheese Exports, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 71,673 grams, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The delay between passed legislation and real world implementation is often a decade or longer, administrative districts are increasingly defined by their taste in housing architecture, hordes of tourists are ruining the environment, and the government recently donated a surfboard to an impoverished family in a landlocked region. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Scooteristan's national animal is the panther, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Scooteristan is ranked 10,200^th in the world and 30^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Highest Food Quality, scoring 159.63 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.