The Mercenary of Silver Sable is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Silver Sable with an iron fist, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 13.835 billion Silver Sableans are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New York City. The average income tax rate is 58.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Silver Sablean economy, worth a remarkable 1,323 trillion bullets a year, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 95,667 bullets, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Students consistently complain that the wi-fi ate their homework, wilderness-dwelling hermits are surprised to find railway stations on their front doorsteps, streakers swamp all public events in order to bare it all, and women who walk into the ladies' changing room are accused of being Peeping Toms. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Silver Sable's national animal is the mouse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Violetism.

Silver Sable is ranked 69,487^th in the world and 3^rd in Spanish Empire for Highest Average Incomes, with 95,667.34 Standard Monetary Units.