The Watchfires of SlovRep is a titanic, pleasant nation, notable for its prohibition of alcohol, compulsory gun ownership, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 22.011 billion SlovRepians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 26.9%.

The strong SlovRepian economy, worth a remarkable 1,401 trillion $$s a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 63,669 $$s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.5 times as much as the poorest.

The government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments, weird kids who eat bugs are breaking the law, livestock mutilations are on the rise, and prominent cultural symbols are featured on the backs of cereal boxes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. SlovRep's national animal is the Death's-head Hawkmoth, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

SlovRep is ranked 59,762^nd in the world and 1^st in Istria for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 158.15 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.