The Social Republic of Sorliva is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by Prime Minister Abich Josef Folau with an even hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, daily referendums, and smutty television. The compassionate, cheerful population of 15.84 billion Sorlivanis enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shurlimtu. The average income tax rate is 98.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Sorlivanian economy, worth a remarkable 2,149 trillion Marque Fédérales a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 135,695 Marque Fédérales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The most notorious criminals are given the Consequences of Your Actions Award, Eau de Trashcan has become a wildly popular perfume, government employees have reverted to carrier pigeon due to never-ending virus scans, and anyone with an emergency on a holy day is advised to pray harder. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sorliva's national animal is the Sorlivanian White Crab, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is The Reformed Sorlivanian Orthodox Church.

Sorliva is ranked 3,630^th in the world and 34^th in The Leftist Assembly for Most Cultured, scoring 190 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.