The Empire of El Holy Salvador is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Great Holy Leader with an iron fist, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, smutty television, and triple-decker prams. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.86 billion El Holy Salvadorians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of San Salvador. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 28.5%.

The all-consuming El Holy Salvadorian economy, worth 352 trillion Central Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 123,094 Central Dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 367,224 per year while the poor average 32,304, a ratio of 11.4 to 1.

Maxtopian tourists make expensive pilgrimages to San Salvador to enjoy their national art, sociologists can charge whatever fee they like as the nation tries to find itself, only fully-fledged members of MENSA are allowed to vote, and stolen Reuben sandwiches are met with detailed and thorough police investigations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. El Holy Salvador's national animal is the Torogoz, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

El Holy Salvador is ranked 269,056^th in the world and 1,279^th in The Communist Bloc for Nicest Citizens, with 0.61 average smiles per day.