The Commonwealth of The United States of Sorledad is a huge, efficient nation, ruled by Nathan Klifford with a fair hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, digital currency, and zero percent divorce rate. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 810 million Sorledians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sorledad. The average income tax rate is 40.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Sorledian economy, worth 70.8 trillion Sorled Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Information Technology. Average income is 87,405 Sorled Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Untold millions of Sorled Dollars are going into a new government-funded maternity leave scheme, orthopaedics patients often have a bounce in their step, the family summer vacation has become a thing of the past following the introduction of the year-round school year, and waste is frequently shipped to other countries. Crime is totally unknown. The United States of Sorledad's national animal is the Great Salt Horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The United States of Sorledad is ranked 36,268^th in the world and 2,114^th in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 77 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.