The Republic of Saltanyas is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Karl Marx with a fair hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, state-planned economy, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 26.271 billion Saltanyasians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Marcuse. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Saltanyasian economy, worth a remarkable 9,834 trillion adornoes 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 374,356 adornoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Saltanyas is notorious for its citizens' infidelity, criminals and college students are taking an interest in the government's new weed-killing program, the Treasury has been accused of flushing money down the toilet, and 1% of global paper production is bound for the National Archive. Crime is totally unknown. Saltanyas's national animal is the fromm, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Communism.

Saltanyas is ranked 119^th in the world and 2^nd in Balder for Largest Governments, scoring 105.09 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.