The Colony of Salem-Norfolk is a tiny, safe nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 9 million Sa'Noers are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 23.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Sa'No economy, worth 386 billion clams a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 42,919 clams, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Officials pull all-nighters to check immigrants for potential links to terrorists, politicians no longer click with dating app matches, all tribal children are set for life with guaranteed government jobs, and tech-mad citizens think that the laser-powered bread-slicer uPhone App is the coolest thing since sliced bread. Crime is totally unknown. Salem-Norfolk's national animal is the cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Salem-Norfolk is ranked 234,688^th in the world and 466^th in The UMNS for Most Developed, scoring 52.45 on the Human Development Index.