The Populgoverne of Alcantaria is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, prohibition of alcohol, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate population of 20.787 billion Alqantarianes are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cive du Alqantarie. The average income tax rate is 97.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Alqantariana economy, worth a remarkable 2,608 trillion Qantares a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 125,477 Qantares, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government theft from poor artists to give to rich allies has been dubbed the "reverse Robin Hood" policy, public projects are synonymous with yawn-inducing conformity, treason is relative, and five-year-olds who refuse to line up on command get gold stars. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alcantaria's national animal is the Ocele, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Alcantaria is ranked 2,693^rd in the world and 36^th in Forest for Safest, scoring 141.95 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.