The New Republic of Albertexa is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by President Isaac Macintosh with an even hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ubiquitous missile silos, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 1.672 billion Albertexans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tex. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 25.6%.

The powerhouse Albertexan economy, worth 151 trillion Texes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Retail, and Information Technology. Average income is 90,907 Texes, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 388,917 per year while the poor average 13,624, a ratio of 28.5 to 1.

Copies of the constitution are used as toilet paper, schoolchildren must pass a six-month Ethics and Safety Committee Assessment before they are allowed to mix baking soda and vinegar, earthquake sirens are a leading cause of hearing loss, and there's more vermin than ever on the metro. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Albertexa's national animal is the Opossum, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Pantheon of Tex.

Albertexa is ranked 76,462^nd in the world and 36^th in Tarkin for Most Cultured, scoring 68 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.