The United States of Sal Shetopia is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its smutty television, restrictive gun laws, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, humorless population of 2.19 billion Sal Shetopians 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, Administration, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 92.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Sal Shetopian economy, worth 222 trillion ices a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 101,609 ices, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

3D printed organs are a breath of new life for the sick and elderly, adults pretending to be teenage girls claim to have wholesome motives, robotic spouses prove to be just as imperfect as flesh and blood ones, and teenagers stay out into the wee hours of the morning "stargazing". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sal Shetopia's national animal is the gnat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sal Shetopia is ranked 288,759^th in the world and 56^th in RPS for Largest Black Market, with 43.0 billion Standard Monetary Units.