The Federal Republic of Salboa is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its public floggings, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 544 million Salboans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Oviertos. The average income tax rate is 66.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Salboan economy, worth 44.7 trillion Salboan Pesos a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 82,227 Salboan Pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Those who cut young children are told to cut it out, convicts get out of jams easily, third world countries are rich in "I Love Oviertos" t-shirts, and the government regularly publishes lengthy reports on its own excessive recordkeeping. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Salboa's national animal is the falcon, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Salboa is ranked 51,191^st in the world and 542^nd in The East Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 78.3 law-abiding acts per hour.