The Republic of Altavento is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, aversion to nipples, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 626 million Altaventoans 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 Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alveria. The average income tax rate is 78.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Altaventoan economy, worth 64.6 trillion zephirs a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 103,121 zephirs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

In musicals everybody's a little bit racist, young children are learning advanced physics to scientifically disprove the existence of Santa Claus, motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours, and condos feature wall-mounted cages containing endangered animals. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Altavento's national animal is the peregrine falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Altavento is ranked 319,997^th in the world and 3,048^th in the Pacific for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 20.74 on the Bus Surprisal Index.