The Republic of Salted is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed population of 4.976 billion Saltedians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 52.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Saltedian economy, worth 148 trillion pesos a year, is led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 29,769 pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Salted's national animal is the kangaroo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Salted is ranked 140,458^th in the world and 1^st in MrBeast for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 713.61 on the Gilded Widget Scale.