The Sultanate of Slavel is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Padisah with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.106 billion Slavelians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Palace of Lords. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 15.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Slavelian economy, worth 486 trillion Servants a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 156,609 Servants, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,422,891 per year while the poor average 1,982, a ratio of 717 to 1.

Lifeguards are more concerned with watching for sharks than struggling swimmers, retail stores have reported mile-long lines after the ban on video games was lifted, you need a signed affidavit from a registered psychiatrist to claim that you have crazy low prices, and the government spends millions of tax Servants on vouchers to pay for expensive private schools. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Slavel's national animal is the Sheep, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Ordinance of Slaves and Masters.

Slavel is ranked 37,749^th in the world and 94^th in Confederation of Corrupt Dictators for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 4,879.15 on the Gilded Widget Scale.