The Republic of Salahale is a titanic, orderly nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 12.042 billion Salahaleans 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, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Boreas. The average income tax rate is 60.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Salahalean economy, worth 412 trillion LSDS a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 34,284 LSDS, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation is famous for bravely sending wave after wave of its soldiers until the enemy runs out of bullets, all writing must pass a censorship board before being allowed on the shelves, conspiracy theorists allege that the government is spying on them through their carbon monoxide detectors, and the teaching of evolution has been banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Salahale's national animal is the Microsoft Excel.

Salahale is ranked 165,085^th in the world and 1^st in Brachia for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 260.5 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.