The Bank of Farrakhan of Gold Crescent Alistan is a gargantuan, orderly nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, avowedly heterosexual populace, and strictly enforced bedtime. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 12.024 billion Gold Crescent Alistanians 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 enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 96.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Gold Crescent Alistanian economy, worth a remarkable 3,079 trillion Dinars a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, Woodchip Exports, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 256,073 Dinars, with the richest citizens earning 5.2 times as much as the poorest.

The nation is wading into dangerous waters, the nation's atlases tend to go out of date every few weeks, every workday begins with group therapy, and it's illegal to be caught on tape. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gold Crescent Alistan's national animal is the Mountain Tiger, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Islam.

Gold Crescent Alistan is ranked 31,109^th in the world and 1^st in Nation of Islam for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 6,858.95 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.