The Dictatorship of ALIWARD is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Adolf Aliw with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, infamous sell-swords, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.512 billion ALIWARDians 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 Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aluwa. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 43.7%.

The frighteningly efficient ALIWARDian economy, worth 126 trillion Alwish dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 83,908 Alwish dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 251,350 per year while the poor average 21,893, a ratio of 11.5 to 1.

Obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals, birds and children's kites are regularly brought down by anti-aircraft fire, dentists routinely perform open heart surgery, and a recent "genocide prevention" campaign includes murdering children based on their DNA. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ALIWARD's national animal is the Addax, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

ALIWARD is ranked 274,007^th in the world and 6,632^nd in the Rejected Realms for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -10.63 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.