The Sibyl of Altasund is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Hildegard von Bingen with an even hand, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 13.415 billion Benedictines are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bingen. The average income tax rate is 79.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Benedictine economy, worth a remarkable 1,293 trillion marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 96,397 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Urban graffiti is hand-calligraphed in perfectly kerned elegant fonts, friendly fire incidents usually result in severe burns, the country is governed by a clique of political insiders known colloquially as The Establishment, and the new iVote app allows representatives to vote on legislation by launching ill-tempered birds and matching candies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Altasund's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Altasund is ranked 88,079^th in the world and 1,669^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 3,426.3 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.