The Free the radiated of The United States of Altaria is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by President Alatarta with an even hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, zero percent divorce rate, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 3.009 billion Altarians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alataria. The average income tax rate is 76.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient United States of Altarian economy, worth 337 trillion Bricks of Uranium a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 112,112 Bricks of Uranium, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

They say that Altarians made a dessert and called it peace, evasive politicians don't fail to strongly commit to not committing to a course of non-inaction, hedge fund managers are diversifying into herbaceous borders, and cassocked priests and choirboys believe that what happens behind closed doors stays behind closed doors. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The United States of Altaria's national animal is the Tit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The United States of Altaria is ranked 10,813^th in the world and 533^rd in The North Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 31.76 average smiles per day.