The United States of Scres Gidgerland is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Kirill Kalugin with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, avant-garde cinema, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, hard-working, devout population of 4.987 billion Scres Gidgerlandians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Anchorage. The average income tax rate is 44.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Scres Gidgerlandian economy, worth 734 trillion dollar USSGS a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 147,270 dollar USSGS, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Pinkerton agents are called in to forcibly break up white collar strikes, invasive drug testing is now performed at elementary school sports days, the streets are increasingly clogged with poverty-stricken beggars, and schoolboys who turn to watch pretty girls go by are given detention. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Scres Gidgerland's national animal is the horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Secular state.

Scres Gidgerland is ranked 13,290^th in the world and 574^th in The North Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 54.3 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.