The Republic of Salavanca is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 212 million Salavancans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 67.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Salavancan economy, worth 8.29 trillion Salavs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Pizza Delivery, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 39,107 Salavs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Racial supremacists indulge their wildest fantasies in cinemas and theatres across the nation, retirement homes are often fitted with luxurious suites, sharks are enjoying their deliveries of canned food, and you're never too young to learn how to lie with confidence. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Salavanca's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Salavanca is ranked 246,242^nd in the world and 2,856^th in The East Pacific for Largest Populations, with 212 million capita.