The Commonwealth of Silverbend is a massive, cultured nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, enslaved workforce, and compulsory military service. The compassionate, humorless population of 2.333 billion Silverbendians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 71.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Silverbendian economy, worth 331 trillion credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 142,194 credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.6 times as much as the poorest.

Protests are legal but strictly supervised, TV coverage of music festivals consists mostly of backstage interviews, space has been brought down to earth with constellations of cancer cases across Silverbend, and there's never enough space in space. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Silverbend's national animal is the eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Silverbend is ranked 10,598^th in the world and 62^nd in Starlight for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 415.42 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.