The State of Slatium is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Joshua Lopez with an iron fist, and remarkable for its frequent executions, public floggings, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 5.385 billion Slatumians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Almavarius Slatia. The average income tax rate is 82.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Slatumian economy, worth 913 trillion Sals a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 169,564 Sals, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The experimental sculpture "Overtures In Dried Slatumian Eagle Dung" has been declared a national treasure, cheap textbooks have replaced coasters at college ragers, historic buildings are being demolished to allow for road-widening in the city centre, and teens are voting on which C-List pop star will be next to be evicted from the opera house. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Slatium's national animal is the Slatumian Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Malunism.

Slatium is ranked 12,665^th in the world and 11^th in The Kodiak Republic for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 8,833.28 on the Gilded Widget Scale.