The Bloodthirsty Bodhisattva of Zaolat is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Saulot with an even hand, and renowned for its ritual sacrifices, soft-spoken computers, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, humorless, devout population of 31.53 billion Salubri are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Enoch. The average income tax rate is 75.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Salubri economy, worth a remarkable 2,942 trillion Valerans a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, highly specialized black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 93,315 Valerans, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

The law says that all Salubri are created equal — no matter how they were created, the new Salubri-made OS is buggier and more inconvenient than a horse-drawn carriage, it's widely agreed that to tennis players love means nothing, and troops are either deafened by gunfire or a hysterical voice screaming the Party manifesto. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zaolat's national animal is the Unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Golconda.

Zaolat is ranked 8,457^th in the world and 230^th in Osiris for Largest Black Market, with 717 trillion Standard Monetary Units.