The Empire Federation of Alski is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Sakurako Yasuda with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 3.876 billion Alskians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sapporo. The average income tax rate is 95.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Alskian economy, worth 536 trillion Baslas a year, is highly specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 138,435 Baslas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Politicians can't accept birthday presents from their own children, anything is permissible when wearing latex gloves, pocket calculators are seen as status symbols for the ostentatiously wealthy, and movement-triggered sensors mean that for every door that closes another one opens. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alski's national animal is the Alska dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Kitsunism.

Alski is ranked 4,123^rd in the world and 92^nd in 10000 Islands for Healthiest Citizens, with 21.46 bananas ingested per day.