The Grand Commonwealth of Silverestone is a massive, genial nation, ruled by the First Silverestonean Triumvirate with a fair hand, and remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.232 billion Silverestoneans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Silvouriksbourg Citadel. The average income tax rate is 90.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Silverestonean economy, worth 116 trillion skryles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Average income is 94,881 skryles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Women who walk into the ladies' changing room are accused of being Peeping Toms, civil servants are no longer allowed to cross their t's, the national guard is mobilized whenever a mother gets separated from her child at the mall, and welfare funding has recently gone through the roof. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Silverestone's national animal is the salmon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is modern druidism.

Silverestone is ranked 4,740^th in the world and 7^th in The League for Nicest Citizens, with 47.51 average smiles per day.