The Democratic Republic of Silu is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, state-planned economy, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed population of 111 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 73.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Siluan economy, worth 3.21 trillion Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Cheese Exports, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 28,935 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Legislators work 24/7 due to an influx of single-issue bills, army doctors who come under attack defend themselves by using stethoscopes like nunchaku, the tomato-covered corpses that decorate the nation's cities are a favourite amongst morbid tourists, and criminals always seem to be forewarned of police raids. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very 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 78,565^th in the world and 461^st in The Communist Bloc for Most Patriotic, with 17.93 flags saluted per person per day.