The United States of Sal Shetopia is a massive, genial nation, notable for its ritual sacrifices, keen interest in outer space, and compulsory vegetarianism. The compassionate, humorless population of 2.137 billion Sal Shetopians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 92.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Sal Shetopian economy, worth 209 trillion ices a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 98,243 ices, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Juries deliberate more than magic 8-balls, woefully uninformed voters cast their ballots at random, the price of takeaway food quadruples after 6pm, and the television adaptation of Jennifer Government is the most popular program in the nation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sal Shetopia's national animal is the gnat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sal Shetopia is ranked 3,165^th in the world and 1^st in RPS for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 10,142.31 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.