The Lucky Gold Randomisation of Aleator is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Luke Rhinehart with an even hand, and renowned for its strictly enforced bedtime, vat-grown people, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 22.455 billion Aleatorians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bedlam. The average income tax rate is 92.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Aleatorian economy, worth a remarkable 5,353 trillion lucky golden fractals a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Uranium Mining, and Gambling. Average income is an amazing 238,397 lucky golden fractals, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

The government is crossing the Rubicon in its levels of corruption, the country behaves just like a group of independent provinces all stacked up under a trench coat, town nameplates frequently raise giggles from passing tourists, and the right school tie opens more doors than the right qualification. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aleator's national animal is the dicedog vampire bat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Chance.

Aleator is ranked 330,222^nd in the world and 31^st in Glass Gallows for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -19.9 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.