The Serene Republic of AlpacaGardens is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by The Shepherd with a fair hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 15.026 billion Gardenias 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Camelid Sanctum. The average income tax rate is 75.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient AlpacaGardenian economy, worth a remarkable 1,801 trillion Hay Bales a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 119,897 Hay Bales, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Urban planners beg for just one more lane before bedtime, school nurse's offices feature full-service operating suites, it is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma, and the media seems excessively interested in what The Shepherd is wearing this season. Crime is totally unknown. AlpacaGardens's national animal is the Alpaca, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

AlpacaGardens is ranked 5,241^st in the world and 274^th in Osiris for Most Developed, scoring 94.35 on the Human Development Index.