The Community of Sklobdt is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its suspicion of poets, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 1.246 billion Sklobdtians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Galab. The average income tax rate is 77.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Sklobdtian economy, worth 69.8 trillion Lobs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 56,044 Lobs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Older citizens lament over the loss of law and order, government officials go door-to-door educating about the dangers of pseudoscience, adverts proclaim it has to be healthy if the Mornay uses hand-grated Gallopavian Gruyère, and scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied Diplodocus. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sklobdt's national animal is the Diplodocus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sklobdt is ranked 18,771^st in the world and 461^st in The Communist Bloc for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,068.4 pounds of wildlife per square mile.