The Sterling of Silver47 is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its otherworldly petting zoo, lack of airports, and national health service. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.819 billion Silver47ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 53.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Silver47ian economy, worth 452 trillion deniers a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 118,395 deniers, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 392,761 per year while the poor average 26,637, a ratio of 14.7 to 1.

Kilts and cassocks are viewed with suspicion, 4-year-olds studying for their mathematics exams are anxious that they will be unemployable in adulthood if they fail, heavily-laden pregnant women are told they can manage, and police officers often head to work wearing onesies and fluffy pink bunny-slippers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Silver47's national animal is the emu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Silver47 is ranked 68,488^th in the world and 10^th in Periodic Table for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 4,423.77 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.