The Empire of Scansinia is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Kaiser with an iron fist, and notable for its public floggings, free-roaming dinosaurs, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 22.308 billion Scansins are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Scanburg. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 12.4%.

The thriving Scansin economy, worth a remarkable 1,657 trillion Marks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Automobile Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 74,297 Marks, with the richest citizens earning 7.9 times as much as the poorest.

Drunk drivers are sentenced to death, lavish state dinners in Scanburg are the state's leading budgetary expenditure, gigantic marble churches take up almost half the land area of small villages, and government reports are now used to teach toddlers to read. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Scansinia's national animal is the Wolf and its national religion is Vedulism.

Scansinia is ranked 206,706^th in the world and 238^th in KAISERREICH for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 37.09 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.