The United Socialist States of Sovetskalya is a massive, safe nation, notable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The cynical population of 1.286 billion Skalyanis are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gorod Skalya. The average income tax rate is 68.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Skalyani economy, worth 29.0 trillion Rubles 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Basket Weaving. 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 22,554 Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Unemployed accountants keep double-entry ledgers of their benefit claims, unshaven men are viewed with suspicion in courts of law, a well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate, and the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sovetskalya's national animal is the Crescent Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is State Athiesm.

Sovetskalya is ranked 115,046^th in the world and 4^th in Veel poppen for Safest, scoring 76.75 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.