The Empire of Solantara is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, prohibition of alcohol, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 573 million Solantarans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 69.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Solantaran economy, worth 57.4 trillion Sols a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 100,234 Sols, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Elderly citizens regularly buy posh multimillion-Sol mansions, blue sky thinkers are reminded that the firmament is actually more of a grey-ish colour, rebuilding efforts for a recently destroyed cathedral aren't expected to be completed for another century, and country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Solantara's national animal is the Sun Dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Solantara is ranked 27,826^th in the world and 343^rd in Europe for Highest Poor Incomes, with 78,901.78 Standard Monetary Units.