The Empire of Salkor is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Arren with a fair hand, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, daily referendums, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.342 billion Salkorians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Urithiru. The average income tax rate is 89.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Salkorian economy, worth 467 trillion Arkens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 107,619 Arkens, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Newspapers and TV broadcasters are given a list of 'acceptable words', relations with Dàguó have warmed from frosty to chilly, rural communities are all but disenfranchised as politicians focus all their attention on winning the deciding urban votes, and the government spends more on chasing distant comets than on basic infrastructure. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Salkor's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Salkor is ranked 14,616^th in the world and 1,044^th in Lazarus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 94.6 law-abiding acts per hour.