The Federal Republic of Alathria is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 727 million Alathrians 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nova Roma. The average income tax rate is 66.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Alathrian economy, worth 63.2 trillion Aureuses a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 86,978 Aureuses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Advertisers are struggling to make water sound cool to a twitchy public, police officers often head to work wearing onesies and fluffy pink bunny-slippers, the best way to be heard in politics is to speak softly and carry a big comedy prop, and Maxtopian tourists make expensive pilgrimages to Nova Roma to enjoy their national art. Crime is totally unknown. Alathria's national animal is the Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Alathria is ranked 12,449^th in the world and 216^th in 10000 Islands for Healthiest Citizens, with 13.35 bananas ingested per day.