The Federation of Salorima is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Chrysaora fuscescens with an even hand, and notable for its pith helmet sales, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate population of 1.372 billion Salorimen 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 Healthcare, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Newer Umbria. The average income tax rate is 66.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Saloriman economy, worth 40.1 trillion cones a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Cheese Exports. Average income is 29,221 cones, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Halberds are common 18th birthday presents, the national security service are a bunch of crooks, the new airport at Mr. Giles' farm is panicking his sheep, and truancy levels are on the rise ever since school registers were banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Salorima's national animal is the jellyfish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Salorima is ranked 155,540^th in the world and 3,080^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 62.98 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.