The State of Sahal is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical population of 42.366 billion Sahalians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 77.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Sahalian economy, worth 631 trillion betales a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Retail. Average income is 14,916 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The tenet of free speech is held dear, the government is cutting back on the number of political prisoners executed each year, gambling is outlawed, and Sahal has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sahal's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sahal is ranked 200,058^th in the world and 1^st in Sahal for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring zero on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.