The Community of Silvesters is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 862 million Silvestersians 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 medium-sized, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Leaves. The average income tax rate is 25.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Silvestersian economy, worth 31.8 trillion Tris 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 Information Technology, Tourism, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Cheese Exports. 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 36,839 Tris, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government has adopted a more thrifty attitude to administrating the country's needs, kids are told they can be whoever they want to be when they grow up, no one believes anything until it has been strenuously tested and peer-reviewed, and Eau de Trashcan has become a wildly popular perfume. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Silvesters's national animal is the Woaddog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Silvesters is ranked 219,767^th in the world and 471^st in A Taco Paradise for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -4.69 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.