The Federal Republic of Salboa is a very large, genial nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 408 million Salboans 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 juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Oviertos. The average income tax rate is 53.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Salboan economy, worth 31.6 trillion Salboan Pesos a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 77,542 Salboan Pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Community organizers have given up going door to door because nobody is home, scientists earn more grant money for reproducing old experiments than trying anything new, students do more community service than homework, and internet moderator is one of the most popular jobs among the nation's more socially awkward citizens. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Salboa's national animal is the falcon, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Salboa is ranked 52,279^th in the world and 608^th in The East Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 176.34 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.