The People's Republic of Alangrad is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Premier Alan with a fair hand, and notable for its smutty television, soft-spoken computers, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 14.414 billion Alangradians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alantropolis. The average income tax rate is 99.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Alangradian economy, worth a remarkable 5,932 trillion Alanmarks 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Book Publishing, Retail, and Tourism. 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 an amazing 411,557 Alanmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Funerals are often rudely interrupted by juggling clowns shouting for volunteers from the audience, counselors have to sign pledges supporting gay rights before they can speak to any patients, primetime re-runs of The Black and White Minstrel Show are a critical hit, and the nationalised Arms Manufacturing Industry is not interested in making weapons. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Alangrad's national animal is the Moose, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Marxism-Alanism.

Alangrad is ranked 6,559^th in the world and 166^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 7,218.83 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.