The Federation of Silves is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by Ivan Andreevich Aleksandrovich with a fair hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, pith helmet sales, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 5.747 billion Silvesians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized, corrupt, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tortuga del Sol. The average income tax rate is 47.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Silvesian economy, worth 863 trillion shelliuses a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 150,308 shelliuses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Silves's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region, patch v22.1705 - all developers are now paid for work, children who refuse to share their crayons are arrested, and all facts are created equal. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Silves's national animal is the turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Turtolia.

Silves is ranked 57,802^nd in the world and 33^rd in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 18,119.15 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.