The Democratic Republic of Albablaska is a very large, genial nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and national health service. The compassionate, democratic population of 356 million Albablaskans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 9.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Albablaskan economy, worth 16.7 trillion Hanzels a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 47,026 Hanzels, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Private pharmacies close down as medicinal drugs are given away freely by the government, anti-government political posters adorn every building like wallpaper, government crews work tirelessly to retake the suburbs from organized packs of raccoons, and trying to toast marshmallows in an electric fireplace just isn't the same. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Albablaska's national animal is the Elf Owl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Albablaska is ranked 225,077^th in the world and 9,171^st in Osiris for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.