The Dictatorship of Alto Castellon is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Carlyle Gray with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, public floggings, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 3.979 billion Alto Castellonians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alta Aragonia. The average income tax rate is 80.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Alto Castellonian economy, worth 558 trillion Crowns a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 140,418 Crowns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People who have never eaten chicken are told it tastes a bit like crocodile, a passport is literally priceless, elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates, and Alto Castellon's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alto Castellon's national animal is the Heron, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Atheism.

Alto Castellon is ranked 282,673^rd in the world and 3,578^th in the West Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -13.22 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.