The Dictatorship of Salty Nation is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Supreme Salty Pancake with an iron fist, and renowned for its public floggings, keen interest in outer space, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 4.624 billion Salty Nationeeses are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Industry, Law & Order, and Education are also considered important, while Welfare and Spirituality aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of SN City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 56.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Salty Nationian economy, worth 769 trillion Salts a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 166,413 Salts, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 642,292 per year while the poor average 29,621, a ratio of 21.7 to 1.

The only Maxxmas gift frontline troops receive from officers is a bullet with the enemy's name on it, student exchange programs are in trouble as everyone wants to leave but no-one wants to come, engine room hooch is the drink of choice among the nation's navy, and oracles predict landslide victories for Supreme Salty Pancake for the next 50 years. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Salty Nation's national animal is the Salty Pancake, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Saltism and Pancakeism.

Salty Nation is ranked 12,892^nd in the world and 3^rd in Conservative England for Most Patriotic, with 57.68 flags saluted per person per day.