The Alpha Version of TestNation is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by test with an even hand, and renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, keen interest in outer space, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 8.924 billion tests are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of test. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 26.5%.

The thriving test economy, worth 693 trillion tests a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is 77,704 tests, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 436,111 per year while the poor average 6,855, a ratio of 63.6 to 1.

Increasing inclusiveness is a sign of the times, fewer people are bathing as citizens must show ration stamps before they can turn on their faucets, signs of extraterrestrial life are just foreign astronauts evading test justice, and Test claims no responsibility for what Test's government does. Crime, especially youth-related, is a problem. TestNation's national animal is the test, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is test.

TestNation is ranked 11,974^th in the world and 1^st in Suspicious for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring 5 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.