The United Socialist States of Almanistan is a huge, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, vat-grown people, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate population of 458 million Almanistanians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 76.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Almanistanian economy, worth 33.6 trillion universal Tokens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 73,428 universal Tokens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Literature classes frequently go on field trips to rock concerts, visitors often mistake the toiletplex at music festivals for the main stage, territories have the right to secede if they aren't happy, and obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals. Crime is totally unknown. Almanistan's national animal is the Human, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Almanistan is ranked 259,695^th in the world and 1,503^rd in The Communist Bloc for Fattest Citizens, with 6.5 Obesity Rate.