The GOLDEN RICHES of Swaklaton is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by KING GOLD VII with an even hand, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, infamous sell-swords, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 6.472 billion Swaklations are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of THE GOLD CITY. The average income tax rate is 18.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Swaklatonian economy, worth 751 trillion GOLDS a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 116,058 GOLDS, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.2 times as much as the poorest.

Swaklatonian athletes are close to breaking the 2 minute mile and the 16 meter long jump, teachers label difficult children as "somebody else's problem" before expelling them, economics is a shrinking field, and diplomats shake hands with their right and hide a poison dagger in their left. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Swaklaton's national animal is the Best WA Delegate EVER Period Undisputed, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is GOLDISM.

Swaklaton is ranked 68,959^th in the world and 4,083^rd in Balder for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 3,157.83 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.