The Empire of Scandinavia and Colorado is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its compulsory vegetarianism, parental licensing program, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 5.082 billion Scandinavia and Coloradoans 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 Healthcare, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Greater Denver-Oslo Metro Area. The average income tax rate is 73.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Scandinavia and Coloradoan economy, worth 142 trillion Ski Waxes 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 a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Cheese 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 28,109 Ski Waxes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All telephone traffic is monitored for 'national security reasons', saying that someone looks a bit pale can be construed as hate speech, foreign livestock are offered asylum, and the leading national news source is 'my cousin Billy-Bob on MyFace'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Scandinavia and Colorado's national animal is the Coloradan Reindeer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Scandinavia and Colorado is ranked 58,432^nd in the world and 207^th in Artificial Solar System for Lowest Crime Rates, with 72.12 law-abiding acts per hour.