The Ancient Imperium of Alistia is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by Arawn Ymerawdwr Tywyll yr Isfyd with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 24.858 billion Alistians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Teml Awyr. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Alistian economy, worth a remarkable 6,620 trillion Doegs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 266,334 Doegs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Children as young as eight can present logical proofs for the existence of the afterlife, the new Alistian-made OS is buggier and more inconvenient than a horse-drawn carriage, explosive diarrhoea is not just a colorful phrase, and clowns are being rounded up and admitted to mental institutions. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alistia's national animal is the Akhal-Teke, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is the Ecclesia Hominibus.

Alistia is ranked 219,474^th in the world and 7^th in The Mystical Alliance for Largest Black Market, with 343 billion Standard Monetary Units.