The Republic of Scandalstan is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 747 million Scandalstanians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Murgy. The average income tax rate is 70.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Scandalstanian economy, worth 24.2 trillion marks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 32,357 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The general public only knows their favorite politician's first name, Leader can cry on demand, Scandalstanian police have to pay out of their own pockets for bulletproof vests, and the newest shade developed by Scandalstan's dye industry has been dubbed 'Agent Orange'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Scandalstan's national animal is the water buffalo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Scandalstan is ranked 252,420^th in the world and 16^th in The Scandalian Alliance for Most Conservative, scoring 39 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.