The Empire of Silver Minner is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Emperor Jermany with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, anti-smoking policies, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 18.256 billion Minners are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Akkadian. The average income tax rate is 55.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Silver Minnerian economy, worth a remarkable 1,789 trillion Silver Valaurums a year, is extremely specialized and solely comprised of the Tourism industry. Average income is 98,013 Silver Valaurums, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Most ambassadors from Silver Minner retire only a few years after being appointed, there are no more heroes any more, the government spends billions to protect Silver Minner from a disaster that is one in a million, and inheritance tax has recently been abolished. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Silver Minner's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christian.

Silver Minner is ranked 132^nd in the world and 5^th in Lazarus for Best Weather, with 1,635 Meters Of Sunlight.