The Tastification step of Add Salt is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 4.567 billion Add Saltians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 23.7%.

The Add Saltian economy, worth 237 trillion guilders a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Soda Sales. Average income is 51,960 guilders, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

Saying the word 'eggplant' is now a criminal offense, penal labor is a de facto death sentence, meat prices are soaring as the farming industry struggle under government-imposed restrictions, and Leader has been known to threaten dissenting citizens with a machine gun at press conferences. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Add Salt's national animal is the squirrel, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Add Salt is ranked 146,226^th in the world and 9^th in Concert Of Nations for Largest Populations, with 4.57 billion capita.