The Dictatorship of Antares Scorpi is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Empress Isla with an even hand, and remarkable for its triple-decker prams, anti-smoking policies, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 24.117 billion Antares Scorpians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Scorpius City. The average income tax rate is 95.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Antares Scorpian economy, worth a remarkable 2,713 trillion Scorpuses a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 112,516 Scorpuses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government prides itself on being smug and condescending to idiots, corrupt paupers spend taxpayer Scorpuses on liquor and tobacco, grumpy old house owners demand that pedestrians get off their footpaths, and for the sake of 'public interest' news programs tell viewers how to home-make Sarin gas bombs. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Antares Scorpi's national animal is the Scorpian, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Antares Scorpi is ranked 88,419^th in the world and 4^th in League of Sovereign Nations for Nudest, with 176.5 cheeks per square mile.