The United States of Sal Shetopia is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its prohibition of alcohol, pith helmet sales, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate population of 1.724 billion Sal Shetopians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 90.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Sal Shetopian economy, worth 156 trillion ices a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Cheese Exports, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 90,570 ices, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The central politburo bears the fruits of everyone's labor, courses in how to boil water are popular for formerly microwave-reliant Sal Shetopians, citizens' names are redacted on their IDs for national security, and cash-strapped junkies lick rabbits for a cheap high. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded 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 12,366^th in the world and 3^rd in RPS for Nicest Citizens, with 27.03 average smiles per day.