The Dictatorship of ALIWARD is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Adolf Aliw with an iron fist, and remarkable for its digital currency, public floggings, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.574 billion ALIWARDians 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, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aluwa. The average income tax rate is 48.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient ALIWARDian economy, worth 130 trillion Alwish dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 82,750 Alwish dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

It's normal to start working life with crippling financial debt, war criminals are given full state funerals, the nation's laws on image rights are amongst the strictest in the world, and the government has pledged that not one drop of its citizens' blood will be spilt. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ALIWARD's national animal is the Addax, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

ALIWARD is ranked 63,476^th in the world and 1,511^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Patriotic, with 22.22 flags saluted per person per day.