The Empire of Silvalbia is a huge, safe nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 264 million Silvalbians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 18.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Silvalbian economy, worth 21.7 trillion Silmarks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 82,024 Silmarks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 296,086 per year while the poor average 16,232, a ratio of 18.2 to 1.

Immersive video game experiences are interrupted by incessant disclaimer pop-ups, helicopter parenting is on the rise, students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak, and students and teachers are regularly stopped and searched for symbols of religious affiliation before class. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Silvalbia's national animal is the White Wolf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Silvalbia is ranked 239,342^nd in the world and 4,602^nd in the South Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 2.76 average smiles per day.