The government of Squawk Major is a democracy: although a ruler named the High Flapper exists, they are elected, their position is temporary, and they must listen to the people's desires. They are selected by a series of tests known as the Trials.The mammoth-owned world next to Squawk Major is Morass Minor, Grandum's home planet and location of the Mammoth Space-Car Races. These very mammoths were the main villains of The Skies of Fear, wanting to take over Squawk Major and change it into a smelly amusement park ruled by Grandum. The inhabitants of Squawk Major include sordes, rhamphorhynchus, and quetzalcoatlus.