The Armed Republic of Salatoa is a very large, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 418 million Salatoans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The medium-sized, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 41.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Salatoan economy, worth 14.3 trillion Shells a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Pizza Delivery, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 34,092 Shells, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Royalist is the most offensive slur in the Salatoan language, it turns out that you actually can put a price on intangible cultural heritage, people with hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia faint upon diagnosis, and Salatoa has designated Salatoa City as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Salatoa's national animal is the Badger, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Salatoa is ranked 297,145^th in the world and 250^th in The League for Most Developed, scoring 50.12 on the Human Development Index.