The Incorporated States of Landing Site Alpha is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Mission Commander Joan Carter with a fair hand, and notable for its daily referendums, free-roaming dinosaurs, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 34.272 billion Alpha Landers are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The relatively small, socially-minded, outspoken government is primarily concerned with Education, although Environment, Administration, and Industry are also considered important, while Spirituality and Defense receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Space Elevator Anchorage One. The average income tax rate is 36.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Alpha Landish economy, worth a remarkable 8,067 trillion inflation adjusted kroes 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 Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. Average income is an amazing 235,409 inflation adjusted kroes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Mission Commander Joan Carter is strangely popular with male politicians' wives, one can wake up in Landing Site Alpha and have breakfast in Bigtopia, the weather report is the prisoners' favourite programme, and interest in globalism never flags. Crime is totally unknown. Landing Site Alpha's national animal is the quagga, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Landing Site Alpha is ranked 56,160^th in the world and 3,443^rd in Lazarus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 72.61 law-abiding acts per hour.