The Democratic Republic of Slands Atland is a mammoth, socially progressive nation, renowned for its soft-spoken computers, frequent executions, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 6.785 billion Atlians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Asuak. The average income tax rate is 20.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Atlese economy, worth 352 trillion ¡⁄s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Gambling, Furniture Restoration, and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 51,958 ¡⁄s, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Virtual assistants are seen with increasing suspicion every time they get an upgrade, punk-rockers and girl-bands are united in their loss of fashion statements, the government makes bereaved siblings into bereaved orphans, and the country's population is reported with a margin of error of several billions. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Slands Atland's national animal is the Northern Utopian Penguin.

Slands Atland is ranked 50,573^rd in the world and 33^rd in Lesbian for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 4,773.87 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.