The Seadogs of Skiva is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Vika Samkriva with a fair hand, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 3.622 billion Skivans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aviksera City. The average income tax rate is 92.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Skivan economy, worth 478 trillion Rosenbuchts 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 Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 132,192 Rosenbuchts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

They who do not work shall not eat, the government's economic policy can be summed up as "Abort, Retry, Fail?", organ donation is compulsory, and the government frequently panders to parents with boutique tax credits. Crime is totally unknown. Skiva's national animal is the Pantoran, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Agmatism.

Skiva is ranked 3,516^th in the world and 2^nd in Realm of the Whispering Winds for Most Pacifist, with 163.25 cheeks turned per day.