The Republic of Alt Voting is a mid-sized, efficient nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The hard-working population of 56 million Alt Votingians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 25.7%.

The very strong Alt Votingian economy, worth 3.09 trillion guilders a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Retail, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 55,215 guilders, with the richest citizens earning 8.3 times as much as the poorest.

Corporations donate huge sums of money to favored politicians, enthusiasm for abstract art has gone up in smoke, military spending is on the increase, and the Alt Voting Enquirer offers weekly cash prizes for 'most blasphemous song, story, or cartoon'. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alt Voting's national animal is the leopard, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Alt Voting is ranked 119,227^th in the world and 47^th in Astellaria for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 41,024.93 Standard Monetary Units.