The State of Alonso de Salazar is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by the Governor with a fair hand, and remarkable for its burgeoning deer population. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 37.483 billion Alonso de Salazarians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Westminster. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.2%.

The very strong Alonso de Salazarian economy, worth a remarkable 1,797 trillion betales a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 47,966 betales, with the richest citizens earning 9.4 times as much as the poorest.

The latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, the government is avowedly atheist, Alonso de Salazar has designated Westminster as its capital city, and The Governor has just been declared ruler of Alonso de Salazar in an international press conference. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Alonso de Salazar's national animal is the deer, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Alonso de Salazar is ranked 256,809^th in the world and 7^th in Marshall Islands for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.73 kickbacks per hour.