The Federal Republic of Aloustein is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its frequent executions, compulsory military service, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 353 million Alousteinians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of ödenskaya. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 39.9%.

The Alousteinian economy, worth 18.3 trillion dollar Aloustighs a year, is led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Basket Weaving, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 51,944 dollar Aloustighs, with the richest citizens earning 5.6 times as much as the poorest.

Mums always ask their three-year-olds for permission before hugging them, the intelligence community is playing 4-D chess with an imaginary spy network, punting clubs and posh accents have been added to the national curriculum, and the statue in the Cumberbatch Plaza has a solar panel for a hat. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aloustein's national animal is the furet, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Aloustein is ranked 274,756^th in the world and 81^st in Tarkin for Most Cultured, scoring 59 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.