The Federation of Alterrum is a titanic, safe nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, rampant corporate plagiarism, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 17.299 billion Alterrans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The relatively small government prioritizes Education, with Industry, Healthcare, and Defense also on the agenda, while Spirituality is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Idryll. The average income tax rate is 66.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Alterran economy, worth a remarkable 5,132 trillion mercators a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 296,667 mercators, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Finders keepers is the law of the land, windows in Idryll don't have much of a view, gamers rarely face the consequences of their actions, and scientists who publish a non-reproducible result are tarred and feathered. Crime is totally unknown. Alterrum's national animal is the orca, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Alterrum is ranked 330,995^th in the world and 1,410^th in Europeia for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 16.64 on the Bus Surprisal Index.