The United States of Sal Shetopia is a massive, safe nation, notable for its smutty television, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, humorless population of 2.349 billion Sal Shetopians 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 enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 92.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Sal Shetopian economy, worth 243 trillion ices a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 103,533 ices, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Airplane passenger seat sizes and ticket prices are both first-class, customs officers pretend not to hear shouts of "HELP LET ME OUT!" emerging from diplomatic bags, students consistently complain that the wi-fi ate their homework, and kindergarten teachers with ankle-bracelets are closely supervised by their parole officers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sal Shetopia's national animal is the gnat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sal Shetopia is ranked 306,235^th in the world and 120^th in RPS for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring -11.17 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.