The Observer States of Alaska and California is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by the Representative Speaker with a fair hand, and notable for its soft-spoken computers, compulsory military service, and unlimited-speed roads. The compassionate, democratic population of 8.603 billion Unionists 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, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alakek. The average income tax rate is 95.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Unionist economy, worth a remarkable 1,097 trillion Standard Union Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 127,626 Standard Union Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

On-duty Air Alaska and California flight attendants are usually seen napping in first class, you're never too young to learn how to lie with confidence, consuming ecstasy is a common rite of passage, and referenda are held for every conceivable government action. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alaska and California's national animal is the Golden Striped Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Secularism.

Alaska and California is ranked 13,418^th in the world and 586^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 106 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.