The Commonwealth of Scarberia is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Prime Minister Alfred Lawrence with a fair hand, and remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, avant-garde cinema, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.141 billion Scarberians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ellesmere. The average income tax rate is 68.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Scarberian economy, worth 49.0 trillion deniers a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 42,936 deniers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Mechanics are often exhausted by their work, bike rage is all the rage, the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one, and government theft from poor artists to give to rich allies has been dubbed the "reverse Robin Hood" policy. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Scarberia's national animal is the painted turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Agnosticism.

Scarberia is ranked 256,947^th in the world and 17^th in The Scandalian Alliance for Most Conservative, scoring 37.08 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.