The Place of Saltidia is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Drake with an even hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, daily referendums, and spontaneously combusting cars. The compassionate, hard-working population of 6.364 billion Saltidians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Noordeleicht. The average income tax rate is 66.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Saltidian economy, worth 826 trillion stalcks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 129,801 stalcks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

Anyone with an emergency on a holy day is advised to pray harder, residents of newly dried out bays live in fear of leaky dikes, putting houses on stilts is elevating house porches and prices alike, and new pilots are regularly reminded that they are more expendable than their planes. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Saltidia's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Saltidia is ranked 18,082^nd in the world and 42^nd in Carcassonne for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 325.78 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.