Saledor

Saledor is bordered by Central Magec and Hefor to the east, Duquire to the northwest (formerly Omane), and Onfrem and Ochiland to the south. It is arid.

Due to strict immigration laws, and the targeted mental harassment of non-Saledorians, the population of Saledor has been 100% Saledorian Nihilist since 1935. The government is similarly Salist, preforming over 1,000 major Salist rituals every year.

## Saledorian Nihilism

Saledorian Nihilism is a religion, philosophy, way of life and political party. Saledorian Nihilists, or Salists, believe only sentient human lives have value. Salists consider humans to be sentient at 3 years old. This is because they value humans for their sentience. Ultimately, it is not humans they value, it is sentience itself.

They believe everything besides sentience is worthless, and have several thousand rituals centered around this belief. Salists consider humanity to be naturally insane and illogical creatures that must constantly be shown things that prove the existence of the true reality, the reality where only sentience has value. They tend to involve destroying physical things (with an emphasis put on destroying large, seemingly useful things, and things that are often "Dear", like diaries, toys, jewelry, etc), money, children under 3 (although this was illegal until 2016), and other non-sentient things, but they are very diverse. They do not always seek to prove the non-value of non-sentience, often they will seek to prove the value of sentience via self-inflicted/family-inflicted good or bad experiences. Certain rituals are commonly used as punishments, doled out by judges.

To further prove to themselves the Salist truth of value, Salists restrict themselves with a number of rules. They must eventually destroy everything they own (Salists believe sentience is infinite), only engage in romance with other Salists, never take pleasure in a ritual (unless the purpose is pleasure, in which case pleasure must be the ONLY purpose), never leave Saledor, never read/watch anything non-Salist (unless allowed by the governor) and never explain Saledorian Nihilism to a non-Salist.

## Politics

Every political party in Saledor is a variant of Saledorian Nihilism. Salist political parties are created by the Political Council of Saledor, some of the only people in Saledor allowed to read non-Saledorian texts. It is their job to turn outside political parties into Saledorian Nihilist political parties, imbuing them with the essence and truth of Salism, to create their Saledorian counterparts. They publish monthly magazines for the dozens of different political parties they create.

Saledor is a far-Salist-left state. The main political parties are Salist Liberalism, Salist Socialism, the Salist Democratic Party and Salist Libertarianism

## Trivia

* Due to upper-atmosphere thunderstorms, the sky in the Central Northern Backstates, including Saledor, will sometimes turn green. Salists believe it is rituals that turn the sky green, although it is unclear what their justification is.
* The capital of Saledor is Beaheville.
* Many Salists have bizarre mental disorders due to brutal rituals done to them as children, and can seem to be from another world entirely.
* Everybody in Saledor is ensured food, warmth, $1,000/month and an indoor bed to sleep in.
* Per Saledor law, all persons permanently moving to Saledor must be observed by a Salist Priest for 5 months and found by the priest to be a true Saledorian Nihilist.
* It is one of the only states in the US to allow non-Americans to live in it permanently, so long as they convert to Saledorian Nihilism.
* The suicide rate is one of the highest in the country at ~1,000 per month, mostly immigrants.
* According to Saledor, immigrants who decide not to convert have a 100% suicide rate.
* Saledor is one of the only backstates that can be reached via a non-backstate plane, although the ticket must be ordered by someone inside the backstate.
* Saledor was the first state to mention or legalize abortion, which it (the tribes that inhabited the region) legalized in 1685. It has never been illegal or regulated.