The United States of Sylver is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Leader with an iron fist, and renowned for its national health service, infamous sell-swords, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 34.613 billion Sylverians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sylver City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 81.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Sylverian economy, worth a remarkable 5,521 trillion sylverdollars 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. 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 an impressive 159,518 sylverdollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 470,814 per year while the poor average 42,503, a ratio of 11.1 to 1.

Scenic beaches are now protected by massive concrete walls, residents are readily ratting out rats in restaurants, citizens with artificial limbs are forbidden to serve as beauty pageant judges, and polygraphs are relegated to the dungeon exhibit in castle museums. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sylver's national animal is the spawn, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is a major religion.

Sylver is ranked 324,652^nd in the world and 7^th in Unknown for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 12.08 on the Kitten Softness Rating.