The Democratic Republic of Silu is a very large, safe nation, notable for its rum-swilling pirates, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The quiet, industrious population of 105 million Siluans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 74.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Siluan economy, worth 3.11 trillion Dollars 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, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Cheese Exports, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. 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 29,588 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cheap and tasteless vegetables flood the markets, the nation's faithful often say there is a higher power watching over them, all you have to do is pray to get into Silu, and the weather in Silu City is always 'pigeons with a chance of droppings'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Silu's national animal is the Swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Silu is ranked 58,730^th in the world and 938^th in The Communist Bloc for Safest, scoring 99.47 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.