The Confederacy of Allertania is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Ruri Hoshino with a fair hand, and remarkable for its public floggings, complete lack of prisons, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.013 billion Allertanians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tokyo. The average income tax rate is 95.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Allertanian economy, worth 482 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 160,269 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The realistic depiction of tentacles is on the core syllabus of most art schools, a passport is literally priceless, people reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight, and frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Allertania's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Allertania is ranked 4,331^st in the world and 1^st in Callista for Most Beautiful Environments, with 2,520.56 pounds of wildlife per square mile.