The Dictatorship of The Silent Waste is a huge, safe nation, notable for its digital currency, smutty television, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 540 million Silent Wasteans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ironhold. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.2%.

The all-consuming Silent Wastean economy, worth 52.1 trillion Sovereign Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Gambling. Average income is 96,523 Sovereign Credits, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 474,808 per year while the poor average 11,204, a ratio of 42.4 to 1.

Skin-tone prom dresses are more unpopular than ever, grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them, children's bedrooms are often decorated with posters of successful accountants, and monocled merchants with funny accents are applying for Silent Wastean citizenship in droves. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control. The Silent Waste's national animal is the Obsidian Vulture, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

The Silent Waste is ranked 68,560^th in the world and 62^nd in Karma for Highest Average Incomes, with 96,523 Standard Monetary Units.