The Progressive Union of Seeker Alpha is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Dale the Honorable Skeptic with an even hand, and notable for its unlimited-speed roads, smutty television, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 29.649 billion Seeker Alphans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sagan. The average income tax rate is 79.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Seeker Alphan economy, worth a remarkable 5,560 trillion credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 187,528 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's navy has been named the scourge of the seven thousand seas, escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky, the big red machine has ground to a halt, and the nation turns a blind eye to human rights abuses in its quest for athletic supremacy. Crime is totally unknown. Seeker Alpha's national animal is the badger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Unitarian Universalism.

Seeker Alpha is ranked 33,135^th in the world and 18^th in Texas for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 5,351.86 on the Gilded Widget Scale.