The Republic of Salavanca is a very large, safe nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 153 million Salavancans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 66.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Salavancan economy, worth 3.77 trillion Salavs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Pizza Delivery, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 24,611 Salavs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is paving paradises to put up parking lots, a referendum must be held in order for any new law to be passed, funny-looking kids are stood at the front of the classroom for everybody to point and laugh at, and foreign musicians that Leader dislikes are turned away at the border. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Salavanca's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Salavanca is ranked 208,709^th in the world and 3,819^th in The East Pacific for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring zero on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.