The Red Heart of Albrook is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Ill'haress Aurora Yukihime with an even hand, and renowned for its national health service, daily referendums, and aversion to nipples. The cheerful, devout population of 20.369 billion Albrookians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Illuminé. The average income tax rate is 59.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Albrookian economy, worth a remarkable 1,571 trillion Brozoufs a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 77,168 Brozoufs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Rare steaks seem even bluer now, the government offers gay men mildly offensive tips on how to pass as straight, burial ceremonies have become as routinised as tax forms, and the treehouse in Butterfly Park is the tallest building in Albrook. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Albrook's national animal is the Butterfly, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is The Phys.

Albrook is ranked 21,261^st in the world and 500^th in The East Pacific for Most Efficient Economies, scoring 98.49 on the Krugman-Greenspan Business Outlook Index.