The Republic of Alari is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Heraclius with a fair hand, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.675 billion Alarians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Revalari. The average income tax rate is 81.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Alarian economy, worth 200 trillion soliduses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 119,940 soliduses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Political cartoons depicting Heraclius's face on a turtle's buttocks are selling like hotcakes, A-SPAN viewership drops as MPs act their age, undersea volcanoes receive strongly worded letters for violating environmental regulations, and picnickers are lucky if a few wasps are the only animals that trouble them. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alari's national animal is the turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Alari is ranked 19,302^nd in the world and 58^th in The Frontier Sea for Most Cultured, scoring 89 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.