The Red Mercantile Communes of Alentejo and Algarve is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Grã-Cônsul Jerónimo de Sousa with an even hand, and notable for its parental licensing program, smutty television, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate population of 17.006 billion Compadrês are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Felicia Argos. The average income tax rate is 98.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Compadrê economy, worth a remarkable 3,406 trillion çifrãoes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 200,338 çifrãoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Funeral directors are frequently looking at their watches during funerals, anti-environmentalist dissidents must beware of government plants in their midst, internet traffic has dropped to near zero, and it's a long jump to get onto the housing ladder. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alentejo and Algarve's national animal is the Lince Ibérico, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Alentejo and Algarve is ranked 4,113^th in the world and 8^th in Portugal for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 614.06 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.