The Commonwealth of Silverbend is a massive, cultured nation, renowned for its national health service, parental licensing program, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, humorless population of 2.438 billion Silverbendians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 73.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Silverbendian economy, worth 363 trillion credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 149,021 credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.5 times as much as the poorest.

Hidden bedroom-cams are installed to catch mothers doing their kids' homework, fake designer clothes are shredded and burnt while many in the world don't have a shirt on their back, nobody expected the fruit inquisition, and the numbers on the latest spending report are reaching stellar levels. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Silverbend's national animal is the eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Silverbend is ranked 322,880^th in the world and 513^th in Starlight for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 20.07 on the Bus Surprisal Index.