The People's Republic of PanScandinavia is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by the Committee of Northern Councils with an iron fist, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, ubiquitous missile silos, and frequent executions. The compassionate, cynical population of 7.352 billion Scandinavians 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 Education, Industry, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of North Pole SEZ. The average income tax rate is 97.0%.

The frighteningly efficient PanScandinavian economy, worth a remarkable 1,173 trillion Renmin-Bis 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 led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 159,624 Renmin-Bis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Lawyers spend as much time preparing their make-up as they do their briefs, talking during class is a gateway to lifelong drug addiction, the army lures cannon fodder with promises of a college education, and living well is no longer the best kind of revenge. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. PanScandinavia's national animal is the Mutant Communist Gay Polar Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism.

PanScandinavia is ranked 10,672^nd in the world and 81^st in The Communist Bloc for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 9,432.38 on the Gilded Widget Scale.