The Federation of Alderan is a small, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, public floggings, and unlimited-speed roads. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 29 million Alderanians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Education, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 11.7%.

The strong Alderanian economy, worth 1.93 trillion Credito alderans a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 66,381 Credito alderans, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.3 times as much as the poorest.

Infantry are nicknamed "mushrooms" because they get fed crap and are left in the dark, the Alderanian Intelligence Agency has put 'Project Quantum Refrigerator' on hold indefinitely, restaurants are required to specify whether their toilet paper was made in Alderan, and homeless people dying of starvation are thought to be a necessary cost of preventing terrorism. Crime is well under control. Alderan's national animal is the crocodile, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Alderan is ranked 111,667^th in the world and 57^th in Magna Aurea for Most Cultured, scoring 66 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.