The United Socialist States of Outer Scotiotland is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Supreme Leader Hynds with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, avowedly heterosexual populace, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 10.897 billion Outer Scotiotlandians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Outer Scotiotland City. The average income tax rate is 95.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Outer Scotiotlandian economy, worth a remarkable 3,280 trillion Scottish Pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 301,064 Scottish Pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Running away is an essential part of the elite forces' hand-to-hand training, the nation's WA representatives have received a very public sacking after Outer Scotiotland allowed its WA membership to lapse, the government is rumored to hire body doubles whose full-time jobs are to cry at public events, and NationStates is now a popular brand of laxatives despite Max Barry's protests. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Outer Scotiotland's national animal is the Unicorn, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Hyndsism.

Outer Scotiotland is ranked 1,114^th in the world and 23^rd in the West Pacific for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring 10,169.56 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.