The Principality of Sloumorn is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its unlimited-speed roads, suspicion of poets, and spontaneously combusting cars. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 466 million Sloumornians are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The medium-sized, liberal, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Welfare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ruthino. The average income tax rate is 40.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Sloumornian economy, worth 41.6 trillion harts a year, is quite specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 89,223 harts, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Untold millions of harts are going into a new government-funded maternity leave scheme, wind farms are erected on shuttered oil platforms, stylish juvenile delinquents are highly overrepresented in fatal motorcycle accidents, and pre-takeoff checks last longer than the flights themselves. Crime is relatively low, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sloumorn's national animal is the manticore, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sloumorn is ranked 258,447^th in the world and 34^th in Coldonia for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -9.7 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.