The Soviet Socialist Republic of Alinore is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Comrade Steele with an even hand, and remarkable for its public floggings, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful population of 2.759 billion Alinoreans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Columbia. The average income tax rate is 96.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Alinorean economy, worth 486 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 176,261 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There is no other place with more lab coats per square mile than former houses of worship, running away is an essential part of the elite forces' hand-to-hand training, prolonged government investigations are a common revenge tactic among spurned significant others, and birth rates have hit an all-time low. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alinore's national animal is the buck, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Alinore is ranked 4,440^th in the world and 104^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Developed, scoring 95.32 on the Human Development Index.