The Borderlands of Greater Alpenbund is a very large, safe nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The cynical population of 166 million Alpians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 30.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Greater Alpenbundian economy, worth 8.02 trillion Golds a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Retail, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 48,300 Golds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Urban graffiti is hand-calligraphed in perfectly kerned elegant fonts, artists are renowned for their ability to make art pieces out of thin air, scavengers with burlap sacks and shovels skulk around graveyards, and the nationalistic national anthem inspires citizens to literally spit at foreigners. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Greater Alpenbund's national animal is the Pheasant, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Greater Alpenbund is ranked 52,555^th in the world and 1^st in The Greater Phoenix Alliance for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 5,303.63 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.