The Guild Founder of Regis Altare is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its public floggings, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, devout population of 8.943 billion Regis Altareans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 67.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Regis Altarean economy, worth 614 trillion gold coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Automobile Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 68,662 gold coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Translators have been hired to deal with the varying regional accents during national political debates, children seem to be getting better at lying these days, university admissions staff are blindfolded to prevent accidental bias, and the nationalised Arms Manufacturing Industry is not interested in making weapons. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Regis Altare's national animal is the guildmember, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Regis Altare is ranked 261,963^rd in the world and 2,700^th in Remembrance for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 16.16 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.