The Mildly Oppressive Republic of SLAM-ER is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Core Consciousness with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 43.585 billion SLAM-ERians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government is primarily concerned with Education, although Environment, Healthcare, and Welfare are also considered important, while Spirituality is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of the Collective. The average income tax rate is 98.9%.

The frighteningly efficient SLAM-ERian economy, worth an astonishing 14,908 trillion kuans a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 342,055 kuans, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hospitals fear government fines more than terrorist ransoms, weird kids who eat bugs are breaking the law, urban parents tell their children that the family car went to a farm upstate, and sports fans complain that cricket tests now last an unbearable ten days. Crime is totally unknown. SLAM-ER's national animal is the robot, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

SLAM-ER is ranked 292,262^nd in the world and 147^th in Canada for Most Primitive, scoring -1021.03 on the Scary Big Number Scale.