The Stalwart Soldiers of Sillimanite is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Nick Fibrolitius with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service, zero percent divorce rate, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 22.455 billion Sillimaniteans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Brandywine. The average income tax rate is 57.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Sillimanitean economy, worth a remarkable 4,486 trillion Corals a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 199,805 Corals, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Cops with assault weaponry are forcing their way into private homes to search for terrorists, country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized, Sillimanite is renowned for its lax gun laws, and the government is funneling billions into Cape Sillimanite following the shuttle crash. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sillimanite's national animal is the Hermit Crab, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Sedimentationism.

Sillimanite is ranked 39,964^th in the world and 2,635^th in Lazarus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 77.7 law-abiding acts per hour.