The Republic of Alfama is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, democratic population of 467 million Alfamen 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 enormous, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Belém. The average income tax rate is 80.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Alfaman economy, worth 29.9 trillion guilders a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry. Average income is 63,968 guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits, many parents are becoming frustrated with their children's choices in spouses, politicians demand do-overs when they don't agree with election outcomes, and cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alfama's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Alfama is ranked 5,373^rd in the world and 152^nd in the South Pacific for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 6,259.82 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.