The Federation of Alverso is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by State Overseer with an iron fist, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 1.169 billion Alversoans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Jurong. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 53.5%.

The all-consuming Alversoan economy, worth 164 trillion Slips a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, and Cheese Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 141,005 Slips, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 466,993 per year while the poor average 31,802, a ratio of 14.7 to 1.

Arbitration is mightier than the sword, government bureaucrats shut down teenage yard-raking businesses for being counter-revolutionary, ride-sharing often involves some passengers sitting on the roof rack, and vacationing Alversoans expect to be treated as royalty. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alverso's national animal is the cow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Alversoianism.

Alverso is ranked 300,188^th in the world and 3,000^th in the Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 46 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.