The Republic of Soltid is a large, safe nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 98 million Soltidians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 68.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Soltidian economy, worth 4.60 trillion Soltidian Dollars 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, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip 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 46,903 Soltidian Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Everybody's got wood thanks to Leader, turning eighteen is often referred to as the 'Age of Aquarius', the education system has gotten a recent boost in spending, and baby dolls thrown in the trash are a leading cause of panic attacks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Soltid's national animal is the Soltidian cock, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Soltid is ranked 276,567^th in the world and 6,129^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 54 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.