The Empire of Alexein is a behemoth, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, avant-garde cinema, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 50.897 billion Alexeinians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 81.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Alexeinian economy, worth a remarkable 5,891 trillion Denars a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Gambling. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 115,757 Denars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The military has quashed a recent coup attempt, cigarettes are dead-cheap, trolls insist that strings of racial slurs mean "good morning" in obscure languages, and citizens are now allowed to discuss whether Leader is the greatest ruler ever or simply the greatest ruler of this generation. Crime is totally unknown. Alexein's national animal is the horse and song bird, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Alexein is ranked 325,964^th in the world and 1^st in Somathrace for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -13.05 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.