The First Nation of Saltern Island is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by Gilmartin Kaighin with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical population of 24.483 billion Salternacks 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saltyre. The average income tax rate is 77.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Salternacky economy, worth 257 trillion Salt Shillings 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 led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 10,529 Salt Shillings, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Meat-eating is frowned upon, Gilmartin Kaighin has just been declared ruler of Saltern Island in an international press conference, militant atheism has been named as Saltern Island's national religion, and Saltern Island has designated Saltyre as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Saltern Island's national animal is the Saltern Terrier, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is militant atheism.

Saltern Island is ranked 328,392^nd in the world and 14^th in Deltic Waters for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 2,348.04 Standard Monetary Units.