The Nomadic Peoples of Garbage Scows is a massive, orderly nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, strictly enforced bedtime, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.995 billion Garbage Scowsians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The minute, liberal, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.0%.

The very strong Garbage Scowsian economy, worth 122 trillion Pop Tops a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 61,309 Pop Tops, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 265,994 per year while the poor average 8,967, a ratio of 29.7 to 1.

The military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms, newborn babies can only be discharged from maternity wards during daylight hours, 4-year-olds are often found reminiscing about the 'good old days', and Leader can finally stop kneading the dough and start rolling in it instead. Crime is a major problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Garbage Scows's national animal is the Garbage Pile Goat, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Garbage Scows is ranked 53,926^th in the world and 1^st in Save The Planet for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 84.77 on the Bus Surprisal Index.